Two fundamental factors affect all astrophotography - timing and location. If a camera happens to be at the right place…
We look forward to this every year! The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition showcases and recognizes some of the…
The Event Horizon Telescope has just released the first images of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center…
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…)