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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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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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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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This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows Beta Pictoris d, a new planet found orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The star is at the centre of the frame, and was subtracted when processing the data, revealing the environment around it. The new planet, indicated with an arrow, is the third one found around this star. The other two are Beta Pictoris b –– the bright source to the left, and Beta Pictoris c, orbiting much closer to the star and not seen here. The image was taken with the ERIS instrument at the VLT. Based on its infrared brightness and colour, the new planet appears to be a gas giant, about 2.4 times more massive than Jupiter. The diffuse horizontal band in this image is a debris disc around the star, seen here edge-on, the leftover material of planetary formation.
“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

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Photographer takes aerial picture of Washington, D.C from backseat of fighter jet aircraft.
Think you look cool with a camera in hand? Nobody’s as cool as this NASA photographer riding in an F-18 jet!

By Alan Palazon Published

NEWS NASA photographer Jim Ross soared the Washington, D.C skies snapping photos of the US capital during the country’s 250th anniversary. Sorry guys, but we’ll never be as cool as this photographer…

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Galaxy.
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”

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Total solar eclipse revealing F corona surrounding the Sun.
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

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A cosmic image rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe that NASA explores
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

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