Gifted astrophotographer, author, and educator Alyn Wallace tragically passed away last week at the young age of 34. Wallace, born in Wales, had been living in Istanbul, Turkey, where he …
My Exmouth eclipse expedition could be a case study on the ‘sunk cost fallacy’ or proof that even blind persistence can pay off. Either way, it is a saga. The …
American company Turing has announced the world’s first digiscoping iPhone adapter with MagSafe, enabling users to line up their iPhone camera, including the main or telephoto cameras, with a telescope …
IRAS 16562-3959, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble used its Wide Field Camera 3 and four different filters to collect the data for this image. | Credit: ESA/Hubble …
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of much of the irregular galaxy ESO 245-5. The Hubble Space Telescope’s new Picture of the Week shows a remarkably dense field of …
Swedish photographer and self-described amateur astronomer Peter Rosén witnessed a magnificent and rare sight in Sweden’s night sky on January 8. While watching Venus rise above Stockholm’s skyline, Rosén captured …
The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies as part of its long-term Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program. PHANS is supported …
NGC 3384 (left) and IC 438 (right) Not to be outdone by the James Webb Space Telescope and its beautiful new nebula image, the Hubble Space Telescope delivered a pair …
At the longer wavelengths of light captured by Webb’s MIRI, it’s possible to see behind the curtain of clouds and dust. Shorter wavelengths of light are absorbed or scattered, obscuring …
Backyard astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has released his highest-ever resolution image of the Sun — a 400-megapixel image made up of over 100,000 photos. McCarthy tells PetaPixel that he was shooting …