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121clicks.com /1 month ago

Out of This World: 33 Outstanding Winners From the 2026 Astronomy Photographer of the Year

There’s something humbling about looking up at the night sky and realizing how much is happening way beyond our little corner of Earth. Stars are exploding, clouds of cosmic dust a...

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121clicks.com /2 weeks ago

Chasing Starlight: 35 Extraordinary Night Sky Photos Captured by David Joyce

There’s something about looking up at the night sky that can make the world feel a whole lot quieter. For David Joyce, that feeling has been part of his life for years. Based in Le...

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

The 31 Out-of-this-World Winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Photographer Ali Alobaidly won this year's Royal Observatory Greenwich ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 18 competition. Alobaidly's incredibly detailed, ethereal photo of the...

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dpreview.com /5 days ago

The Astrophotography Prize winners reveal a sky worth staying up for

From a unanimously perfect-scoring nebula shot to a backyard capture that stunned the panel, this year's entries pushed the boundaries of what amateur and professional astrophotogr...

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newscientist.com /1 month ago

See the dazzling images that won Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Stunning pictures of nebulae, stars, the moon and more took top prizes in this year's astrophotography competition, organised by the Royal Observatory in London

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universetoday.com /1 day ago

Even the Rubin's Test Camera Produces Stunning Images

The Vera Rubin Observatory's Commissioning Camera operated for about 7 weeks in 2024, before the observatory released its well-known first look images. It's an engineering camera,...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

The Heavens Declare, and the Sky Tells

Our contributor Kirk Durston takes gorgeous astronomy and other nature photos. He graciously agreed to let me share these, with his captions. Source

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petapixel.com /1 day ago

The Wonders of Space Sparkle in the 2026 Astrophotography Prize

Astrophotographer Evan McKay has been named Photographer of the Year in the 2026 Astrophotography Prize, taking the competition’s highest honour with his image, Cathedral Cove, New...

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petapixel.com /3 weeks ago

Webb Photographs One of the Most Beautiful Gravitational Lenses

The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Picture of the Month is among the best and most powerful examples of gravitational lensing ever seen. [Read More]

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

What It Actually Takes to Photograph a Galaxy From Scratch

Capturing a galaxy 12 million light years away takes clear skies, a tracking mount, hours of long exposures, and a stacking process most beginners never attempt. Getting all of tha...

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fstoppers.com /1 week ago

Behind the Shot: How Do You Even Go About Photographing Radio Telescopes Under the Milky Way?

How do you photograph something like this? Two enormous radio telescopes, the Milky Way rising between them, and a foreground that actually has detail instead of disappearing into...

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

Astronaut Jessica Meir Photographed a Purple Aurora From 255 Miles Up With a Nikon Z9

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed an aurora glowing green and purple over Kyrgyzstan on September 7, shooting from the International Space Station at an altitude of 255 mile...

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petapixel.com /23 hours ago

Webb Photographs a ‘Turbulent Cauldron of Star Formation’

The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) newest Picture of the Month shows what the European Space Agency (ESA) describes as a "turbulent cauldron of star formation." The star-formi...

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petapixel.com /2 weeks ago

Photographer Captures the Milky Way Over Manhattan, Despite the Light Pollution

A photographer has captured a magnificent timelapse of the Milky Way above New York City using infrared camera equipment. [Read More]

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fstoppers.com /1 month ago

A $700 Smart Telescope vs. a $4,000 Milky Way Rig: Which Wins?

A $700 smart telescope and a $4,000 traditional rig pointed at the same patch of sky on the same night in northern New Mexico, and the gap between them was smaller than the price t...

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petapixel.com /5 days ago

I Tried a Starlapse (and Learned a Lot)

Ever since capturing my solar eclipse timelapse, I’ve wanted to explore and refine the technique. There were quite a few takeaways from that previous project in terms of settings a...

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

Webb Photographs One of the Most Puzzling Galaxies in the Universe

The latest ESA/Webb Picture of the Month captures the irregular galaxy Arp 263 in infrared light, showing the very odd final phase of a long-past galactic merger. [Read More]

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petapixel.com /2 weeks ago

NASA Releases Artemis II Crew’s Handwritten Notes of Moon Meteors

NASA has released an image of the dark side of the Moon complete with handwritten annotations made by the Artemis II crew who were observing it at the time. [Read More]

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planetary.org /3 weeks ago

The best space images of the month

All of our favorite space photos from the past month.

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universetoday.com /4 days ago

Webb Captures This Golden Galaxy Cluster in All it's Glory

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features the brilliant golden galaxies belonging to the MACS J0454.1-0300 galaxy cluster.

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universetoday.com /1 month ago

Martian Astronomy: Percy Sees a ‘Phobos Eclipse’ From Mars

Sure. It’s just another image of Phobos crossing the disk of the Sun, as seen from the surface of Mars. Like so much of the modern space era, these images, once amazing, are now al...

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planetary.org /2 weeks ago

A guide to sidewalk astronomy

Our top tips on hosting your own sidewalk astronomy event.

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universetoday.com /1 month ago

Rubin Observatory Peers Deep Into the Famous COSMOS Field

A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field.

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petapixel.com /2 weeks ago

This Firework-Like Supernova Remnant Is the Result of an Explosion People Saw 845 Years Ago

Scientists using the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i captured a new photo of Pa 30, a supernova remnant believed to be the remains of a supernova that people witnessed in August...

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