Astrophotography

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Mt Vesuvius seen from space.

Astronaut shoots breathtaking aerial photographs of two of Europe's most iconic volcanoes in just one minute!

By Alan Palazon published

News French astronaut Sophie Adenot captured images of Mt Vesuvius and Mt Etna from 250 miles above the Earth’s surface aboard the International Space Station

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The CSIRO ASKAP radio telescope has built the largest mag of the universe's magnetic fields yet

Magnetic fields are invisible, but researchers have just built the most detailed photo yet showing nearly four million galaxies

By Hillary K. Grigonis published

SPACE Researchers at Australia's space agency have built the largest map of the universe's magnetic fields yet

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Photos from the MAVEN Mars orbiter

These are the best photos from the dead Mars probe - MAVEN orbiter photographed the red planet in unprecedented detail for over a decade

By Hillary K. Grigonis published

NASA The now lost MAVEN spacecraft had an ultraviolet camera on board that snapped impressively colorful images of Mars

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Two men under the Northern Lights

Grab your camera! Four coronal mass ejections could collide into a major northern lights display on June 4 and June 5

By Hillary K. Grigonis published

AURORA Space experts are predicting higher than average odds of seeing the aurora in the northern US, Canada, and even a "slight chance" for northern England

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June 9, 2017 - The rising full moon of June, dubbed the Strawberry Moon, as seen rising over a prairie pond in southern Alberta, Canada. At right, the glitter path from the moon also combines on the water. This illustrates the effect of the moon brightening and becoming less red/yellow as it rises into clearer air above the horizon, with less atmospheric absorption of the short wavelengths.

Astrophotography in June 2026: get your camera ready to photograph the moon and the stars this month

By Jamie Carter published

Astrophotography Everything you need to know about what’s worth photographing in the night skies over the coming month

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A NASA rendering of the MoonFall drone

Humans are going to the Moon. Cameras and massive seven-foot drones will help them arrive safely

By Hillary K. Grigonis published

NASA Cameras will help researchers study the Moon's surface ahead of the planned Moon Base, including four seven-foot-wide camera drones

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Person holding light near large baobab trees under a star-filled night sky with the Milky Way visible

"I spent 10 days traveling through Botswana, living out of my car and moving through remote desert landscapes in complete isolation, focused entirely on photographing the night sky"

By Kim Bunermann published

NEWS Armed with an astro-modified DSLR camera, this photographer crossed remote salt pans and captured ancient boabab trees beneath the Milky Way

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An image of Mars captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft that shows the entire planet but in the shape of a crescent thanks to a thin slice of sunlight at the bottom of the planet

This photograph isn’t the Moon. It’s Mars. But it’s not the only stunning image coming from Psyche’s Mars flyby

By Hillary K. Grigonis published

MARS A NASA spacecraft on its way to an asteroid has captured several stunning images of the Red Planet

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Observatory under a meteor shower with a colorful Milky Way arching across a starry night sky

Photographer captures Geminid meteors over giant telescope for the first time in stunning 400MP night sky panorama

By Kim Bunermann published

NEWS A winter Milky Way panorama shows Geminid meteors streaking above the world's largest optical telescope in Spain

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A galaxy glittering with stars and blue and red gas clouds.

Clusters of bright blue stars and glowing red gas clouds steal the show in this new Hubble image of a glittering galaxy that stopped me in my tracks

By Alan Palazon published

News NASA has published a new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope depicting a nearby spiral galaxy “glittering” with clusters of stars

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