Astrophotography

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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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The Pillars of Creation

Spatial 3D, NASA Style – soar through the Pillars of Creation in this combined Webb + Hubble visualization

By Leonie Helm published

News Viewers can view the most comprehensive and detailed multiwavelength movie yet of these star-birthing clouds

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The NASA Hubble Telescope has captured the transformation of a nebula due to forming baby stars

Baby stars transforming a nebula nursery captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope

By Leonie Helm published

News Color nebula photography: Space is glowing red, pink, and blue due to the formation of baby stars within it

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The surface of an area of Mars called Bright Angel. Its light colored rock formations look like popcorn

Fancy a space snack? NASA takes pictures of "popcorn" on Mars

By Leonie Helm published

News NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has entered new territory and discovered delicious indications of previous life on the planet

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A graphic from NASA showing the Earth from space, and a collage of pets and

Photos of astronauts' pets sent into space using NASA's first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system

By Leonie Helm published

News Over 500 images of cats, dogs, snakes, and cows owned by astronauts were sent between Earth and space

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An image of Jupiter's moon Io shot from Earth. The image combines three spectral bands — infrared, red and yellow — to highlight the reddish ring around the volcano Pele (below and to the right of the moon's center) and the white ring around Pillan Patera, to the right of Pele.

New photo of Jupiter’s volcanic moon "equivalent to taking a picture of a dime from 100 miles away"

By Leonie Helm published

News Using a telescope perched on a mountain in Arizona, scientists have managed to photograph the moon Io in amazing detail, rivalling images taken with space telescopes

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Earth rising above surface of the moon's surface - a photograph popularly known as Earthrise

Bill Anders 1933-2024: astronaut who shot "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken" dies in plane crash

By Chris George published

EARTH DAY 1968 photograph of Earthrise was shot from Apollo 8 on the first manned mission to orbit the Moon

EARTH DAY
A time-sequence composite of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. In this case, time runs from left to right, from the last filtered partial phases I shot, through unfiltered shots of the rapidly changing last glimmer of sunlight disappearing behind the advancing Moon at Second Contact, forming Baily’s Beads, to totality at centre. The sequence continues at right with the Sun emerging from behind the Moon in a rapid sequence at Third Contact, followed by two post-totality filtered partials to bookend the total eclipse images. The C3 limb had a beautiful array of pink prominences. The Contact 2 and 3 images were taken in rapid-fire continuous mode and so are only fractions of a second apart in real time. Most are 1/4000th second exposures. The totality image is a blend of 7 exposures, from 1/1600 second to 1/15 second to preserve detail in the corona from inner to middle corona. These were aligned, and merged into a smart object and blended with a Mean combine stack mode. The partials are 1/2500-second exposures through a Thousand Oaks metal-on-glass solar filter for the yellow colour. The placement of the frames here only roughly matches the actual position and motion of the Sun across the sky during the time around totality. Partials and C2 and C3 images layered into Photoshop and blended into the background totality image with a Lighten blend mode, and masked to reveal just the wanted bits of each arc. The site was north of Driggs, Idaho in the Teton Valley, north of the centreline. Thus the diamond rings are above the centre of the Moon's disk.

The next total solar eclipse is two years away - but I'd start planning now

By Jamie Carter published

The ultimate guide to when and where to photograph the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, in Western Europe

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Sunspot region AR3697 shortly after an X-class solar flare eruption on May 27

Astrophotographer captures stunning images of sunspot responsible for Northern Lights flurry—and it’s coming back!

By Leonie Helm published

News The Northern Lights may be visible again this week after sunspot turns to face towards Earth again

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Europa, one of Jupiter’s 95 moons has scientists curious. They think beneath its icy surface, there might be conditions that make life possible

Could photos of a platypus on the surface of Jupiter's moon ‘Europa’ be the key to discovering life beyond planet Earth?

By Leonie Helm published

News Ground breaking images taken by NASA's spacecraft Juno have revealed something incredible about Europa's crust

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