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Confessions of an eclipse photographer: shooting my first ring of fire eclipse and discovering that photographing from a Caribbean cruise ship is much harder than it looks!
By David S Young Published
Solar eclipse In the second of a three-part series, David S Young how things have changed over 47 years of chasing totality with his camera

I've been photographing total solar eclipses for over 40 years – and this is what it was like chasing totality with a film camera back before the internet
By David S Young Published
Solar eclipse In the first of a three-part series, David S Young recalls what it was like to photograph a total solar eclipse with film cameras and without the aid of the internet

“We’ve learned not to trust bright blobs in images.” This is one of the most photographed planetary systems, but a faint planet still played hide-and-seek in more than a decade's worth of photos
By Hillary K. Grigonis Published
SPACE Researchers from NASA and the ESO have found a new exoplanet hidden inside one of the most photographed regions of the night sky

4 hours of searching led to this spectacular Milky Way cave photo – "I'm always drawn to locations that feel unique and relatively undiscovered"
By Kim Bunermann Published
NEWS After nearly giving up, the photographer found the hidden cave behind one of this year's most striking Milky Way photographs
Astronomers perplexed by new James Webb Space Telescope photos unveiling secrets of a galaxy 11 million light-years away
By Alan Palazon Published
News The images shed light on the galaxy’s past and colorful stars that other telescopes couldn’t in what the dumbfounded astronomers are calling a case of “galactic archaeology”

Why use huge space telescopes for astronomy when you can blast an astronaut with a Nikon into space – new research paper suggests
By Alan Palazon Published
News An image shot on a handheld Nikon during the recent Artemis II lunar mission has revealed new insights into the evolution of our solar system

“Moments like these never get old up here”: astronaut captures mesmerizing image of the aurora from aboard ISS with Nikon flagship camera
By Alan Palazon Published
News Astronaut Sophie Adenot captured an unbelievable aurora “stretching as far as the eye could see”, bolstering her impressive portfolio snapped aboard the International Space Station

Fireworks aren’t the only thing to photograph in the night sky this weekend – sun flares increase the odds of spotting the northern lights
By Hillary K. Grigonis Published
10 solar flares emitted over a 24-hour period could bring aurora sightings farther south as early as tonight

These impressive space photos come with…sound? NASA has turned photographs of galaxies and nebulae into songs in a newly released collection
By Hillary K. Grigonis Published
NASA In honor of the Fourth of July, NASA has released a patriotic collection of images that also comes with data-centered audio

At 3,200 megapixels, the world’s largest camera has officially started its unprecedented mission. “Today, we begin filming the greatest cosmic movie ever made.”
By Hillary K. Grigonis Published
SPACE The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun a ten-year time-lapse of the night sky using the world's biggest camera
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