Astrophotos
This is it! Meet the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
The Event Horizon Telescope has just released the first images of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center…
This Incredible Photo of the Sun is Made up of 150,000 Individual Photographs
You’re looking at a 300-megapixel photo of our Sun. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy used a specially modified telescope, taking over 150,000…
Here’s the View From Sweden During the Recent Solar Storm
Vivid green and purple aurora swirled and danced across the entire night sky in Sweden recently. The nighttime light show…
A High Resolution, Cross-Eyed Look at the Entire Surface of Mars
A group of amateur and professional astronomers have collaborated to create what may be the highest resolution global map of…
See a 360 Degree Juno-Eye View of Jupiter During an Io Eclipse
Yesterday, we posted some incredible photos from the Juno Probe’s 29th flyby of Jupiter. Juno is in a highly elliptical…
A beautiful picture of Saturn’s heavily-cratered moon Mimas, processed by @kevinmgill
The Cassini mission to Saturn took many images of Mimas, one of the smallest moons in the solar system. And…
This Is Fascinating. An Image of a Galaxy’s Magnetic Field
There’s always more than one way to look at the world. There’s also more than one way to look at…
One of the Best Pictures Ever Taken of ISS from the Ground. You Can Even See the Canadarm2
Astrophotographer Thierry Legault is renowned for his amazing shots of spacecraft transiting the Sun. He’s now outdone even himself. (more…)
This “All Terminator” Image of the Moon isn’t Actually Possible to See. But it Sure is Beautiful
"This moon might look a little funny to you, and that's because it is an impossible scene," wrote photographer Andrew…
This Astrophotographer Makes the World Turn and the Sky Stand Still
Photographer Eric Brummel has created a stunning time-lapse of the Milky Way. Time-lapses of the Milky Way are not rare,…