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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

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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"

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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Temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b may be a world completely covered in ice (left) similar to Jupiter’s moon Europa or be an ice world with a liquid substellar ocean and a cloudy atmosphere (centre). LHS 1140 b is 1.7 times the size of our planet Earth (right) and is the most promising habitable zone exoplanet yet in our search for liquid water beyond the Solar System

James Webb Telescope data strongly supports life on other "habitable" planet in new ocean discovery

By Leonie Helm published

News LHS 1140 b sits in a habitable 'Goldilocks zone', meaning it is neither too hot, not too cold to host water, and therefore life

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L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), is a molecular cloud that harbors a protostar. It resides about 460 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. The more diffuse blue light and the filamentary structures in the image come from organic compounds known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), while the red at the center of this image is an energized, thick layer of gases and dust that surrounds the protostar. The region in between, which shows up in white, is a mixture of PAHs, ionized gas, and other molecules. This image includes filters representing 7.7 microns light as blue, 12.8 microns light as green, and 18 microns light as red

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope photographs incredible celestial fireworks display caused by forming star

By Leonie Helm published

News In the neck of the hourglass shape, a central protostar, about 100,000 years old, can be seen growing

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Milkyway from Segara Anak, Lombok, Indonesia

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

By Jamie Carter published

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

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This image was taken at Snettisham Beach, famous for its vast tidal mudflats that attract migrating birds in staggering numbers. The foreground subject is a dilapidated jetty, which was built in the Second World War to allow gravel extracted from the nearby pits to be moved by boat. The curved channel in the mudflat mirrors the trailing stars

Explore the night sky with the shortlisted images in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

By Leonie Helm published

News Global photographers have captured stunning images of the night sky using drones, telescopes and all sorts of other kit

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