You’re looking at a 300-megapixel photo of our Sun. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy used a specially modified telescope, taking over 150,000…
Vivid green and purple aurora swirled and danced across the entire night sky in Sweden recently. The nighttime light show…
A group of amateur and professional astronomers have collaborated to create what may be the highest resolution global map of…
Yesterday, we posted some incredible photos from the Juno Probe’s 29th flyby of Jupiter. Juno is in a highly elliptical…
The Cassini mission to Saturn took many images of Mimas, one of the smallest moons in the solar system. And…
There’s always more than one way to look at the world. There’s also more than one way to look at…
Astrophotographer Thierry Legault is renowned for his amazing shots of spacecraft transiting the Sun. He’s now outdone even himself. (more…)
"This moon might look a little funny to you, and that's because it is an impossible scene," wrote photographer Andrew…
Photographer Eric Brummel has created a stunning time-lapse of the Milky Way. Time-lapses of the Milky Way are not rare,…
The SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured this image of a white dwarf feeding…