Astrophotography

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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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Young girl with red hair watching the annular solar eclipse with special viewing glasses.

Have you got your solar glasses yet for next week's spectacular eclipse?

By Chris George Published

Eclipse A solar eclipse will be visible on August 12 in Europe and North America – but your eyes will need protective glasses to view it

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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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This exceptionally deep image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals the renowned COSMOS field and its surroundings in the constellation Sextans. The view is crowded with galaxies and galaxy clusters spanning an immense range of distances and cosmic ages, while only a handful of foreground stars belong to our own Milky Way. It was created by combining multiple observations from Rubin’s LSST Camera into a deep coadded image and is being released to mark Early Data Preview 2, the first Rubin data preview based on LSST Camera observations. The COSMOS field was selected more than two decades ago to provide astronomers with a relatively unobstructed window into the distant Universe. Located away from the crowded plane of the Milky Way, it contains comparatively few bright stars and little intervening dust, and it is accessible to major observatories on Earth and in space. Even in this exceptionally clear region, Rubin’s remarkable sensitivity reveals traces of faint, glowing galactic cirrus: wisps of interstellar dust within our own Milky Way superimposed on the much more distant cosmic landscape. Early Data Preview 2 comes on the heels of the beginning of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). With its ability to observe the southern sky deeply, widely, and repeatedly, Rubin Observatory is poised to transform many areas of astronomy.

This single 3200-megapixel photo contains more than half a million galaxies and 50,000+ stars. Vera Rubin scientists say this is just the beginning

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

SPACE The latest image from the world's largest camera captures an overwhelming number of galaxies on a 3200MP car-sized camera

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