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Perseid meteor shower
The eclipse is great, but don't forget to photograph the Perseid meteor shower tonight!

By Jamie Carter Last updated

HOW TO The eclipse isn't the only thing happening tonight! Here's how to photograph the Perseid meteor shower

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Satellite image depicting form of a bird in Antarctic ice surface.
Space satellite captures remarkable image of huge magenta-green “hummingbird” covering Antarctic ice

By Alan Palazon Last updated

NEWS A joint US-Indian space agency satellite has captured what appears to be a huge magenta-green "hummingbird" engraved in Antarctica's ice

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Lion Nebula.
James Webb telescope captures stunning image of Lion Nebula in spellbinding detail

By Alan Palazon Published

News The space telescope captured infrared images of the unfathomably beautiful dying star, rendering it in magenta and cyan colors, and a previously unseen level of detail

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Why #Earthrise? The iconic photograph behind Earth Day's hashtag
Earthrise: The iconic image behind Earth Day is "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken"

By Chris George Published

EARTH DAY The story of William Anders' iconic 'Earthrise' image, which helped to spur Earth Day and the environmental movement

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Solar eclipse
I have photographed seven solar eclipses, and it was the internet that changed everything for the last three – and not in a good way!

By David S Young Published

solar eclipse This is how the Great American Solar Eclipse became the Great American Traffic Jam!

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View of Earth from International Space Station.
NASA astronaut eyes up this amazing composition of the eye of a super typhoon from space

By Alan Palazon Published

News NASA flight engineer Anil Menon snapped this image of the eye of the storm with his iPhone from aboard the International Space Station

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View of a partial solar eclipse at New Brighton, a coastal suburb of Christchurch, on September 22, 2025.
How to plan photographing August 12's solar eclipse and Perseids meteor shower peak

By Jamie Carter Published

Astrophotography With a solar eclipse in Europe and North America followed by the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, August 12 will bring plenty of photographic opportunities. Here’s how to plan a shoot for both

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Plasma swirling in surface of Sun.
Scientists capture highest-resolution photos of the Sun’s surface ever, revealing “tiny engines” driving solar activity

By Alan Palazon Published

News Astrophysicists used a solar telescope fitted with a high-speed camera to capture the frames, which revealed Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a process they now think may be key to understanding how the Sun generates heat

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A composite of the August 21, 2017 total eclipse of the Sun, showing the second and third contact diamond rings and Baily’s Beads at the start left and end right of totality, flanking a composite image of totality itself The diamond ring and Baily’s Beads images are single images The totality images is a blend of 12 exposures from 1/1600 sec to 1 second, stacked as a smart object and combined using the Mean stack mode to blend the images Several High Pass filter layers were added to sharpen and increase the contrast in the coronal structures Regulus is the star at lower left Placement of the images only roughly matches the actual position and path of the Sun across the sky However, the time sequence runs from left to right All taken through the 106mm Astro-Physics Traveler refractor with a 085x reducer/flattener, yielding f/5 at 500mm focal length, wide enough to capture Regulus at left All with the Canon 6D MkII camera at ISO 100 Shot from a site in the Teton Valley, Idaho, north of Driggs. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images)
Two eclipses and meteor showers – NASA offers simple guide to shooting August’s massive schedule of must-not-miss astrophotography events

By Alan Palazon Published

News From solar and lunar eclipses to meteor showers, August 2026 is a big month for astrophotography: here’s a summary of NASA’s top tips for enjoying the spectacles

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The ArcBlue C24 astrophotography camera used by a photographer
This full-frame camera doesn’t just photograph the stars – it tells you what stars you’re looking at from a removable magnetic LCD screen

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

ASTRO The ArcBlue C24 is a dedicated astrophotography rig for photographing (and IDing) the stars – and it works with existing lenses and telescopes

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