Astrophotography

Latest about Astrophotography

The Perseids Meteor Shower

Astrophotographers prepare for “the best meteor shower of the year” according to NASA

By Leonie Helm published

News The Perseids Meteor Shower is an annual meteor shower that peaks in mid-August, with up to 100 meteors per hour

News
This is the Hubble Space Telescope image of the inner region of Abell 1689

Can scientists capture the first images of dark matter with this camera trap-like device?

By Leonie Helm published

News If the device is successful, it will capture a "one in a million" image of dark matter according to physicist Ashutosh Kotwal

News
A meteor from the 2016 Perseid meteor shower streaks across the night sky above some pine trees in the Cleveland National Forest. Mount Laguna, San Diego County, California. USA

Astrophotography in August 2024: what to shoot in the night sky this coming month

By Jamie Carter published

astrophotography Everything you need to know about what’s happening in the night sky this month.

astrophotography
Christmas tree cluster

NASA astronauts to give free astrophotography master class TODAY live from space

By Leonie Helm published

News NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, commander of the SpaceX Crew-8 Mission, will be joined by veteran Don Pettit

News
Photograph of the Northern Lights

One for the astrophotographers – 'photographic aurora' will return as far south as New York this week

By Leonie Helm published

News While tricky to see to the naked eye, the Northern Lights will be visible through a lens from New York to Idaho this Wednesday

News
The surface of our sun

Astrophotographer takes stunning photographs of the sun in incredible detail from his backyard in Arizona

By Leonie Helm published

News “I have been imaging the sun for years,” Johnston told DCW, “Recently, I created a large aperture custom solar telescope"

News
Hubble Telescope discovers new black hole

NASA’s Hubble Telescope discovers closest black hole to Earth – changing our understanding of space

By Leonie Helm published

A galaxy frozen in time has been hailed as the missing link in black hole formation, discovered using 500 photographs

Astrophotography
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors. The Egg shows up as a tiny, teal-colored oval, because it is made up of old stars and has lost or used up most of its gas and dust. At right, the Penguin’s star-forming regions are represented in pink and purple, and contain smoke-like material known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Photograph of the Penguin Galaxy chasing the Egg commemorates second space anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope

By Leonie Helm published

News The stunning image is of the two galaxies on their fixed collision path, that will one day become a single entity

News
A small image of a galaxy distorted by gravitational lensing into a dim ring. At the top of the ring are three very bright spots with diffraction spikes coming off them, right next to each other: these are copies of a single quasar in the lensed galaxy, duplicated by the gravitational lens. In the centre of the ring, the elliptical galaxy doing the lensing appears as a small blue dot. The background is black and empty

James Webb Space Telescope photographs jeweled ring in the cosmos in one of its best discoveries to date

By Leonie Helm last updated

News Did you know gravity can create lenses, and Einstein predicted it? Here's one the JSWT saw!

News
The Milky Way

You don't need a telescope to photograph the Milky Way this summer

By Leonie Helm published

News In the winter, we are positioned away from the congested center of the Milky Way, making it less prominent

News
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Archives