Stars, stars, and still more stars! Digital has made all the difference—it’s been a game changer for would-be astrophotographers everywhere, training their lenses skyward at night to capture the splendor of the Milky Way. In the foregoing era of film, the light insensitivity of cameras in dark conditions confounded photographers trying to portray this dimly-lit spectacle….
Milky Way Photographers Show Off Best Shots of Our Galaxy in 2023—Here Are the Competition Winners
The Andromeda Galaxy’s Cannibalistic Feasts Revealed by a Dark Stream
An international team of scientists, led by an astrophysicist from the University of Sydney, has found the leftovers of a colossal cannibalistic feeding event in the far outskirts of the Andromeda galaxy. Honor students Tim Adams from Sydney University and Yuan Li from the University of Auckland discovered a structure of stars, known as a globular cluster (GC),…
PHOTOS: NASA Reveals First Images From New Space Telescope Showing Unseen Scenes of Distant Galaxies
NASA just kicked off the “dawn of a new era in astronomy” this week releasing the first full-color images and spectroscopic data from its new James Webb Space Telescope. It’s the “largest and most powerful space telescope” the world has ever seen, the space agency stated. Dazzling shots display previously unseen reaches of space, near and far,…
European Star Survey Reveals Celestial Treasure Trove
BERLIN—The European Space Agency released a trove of data Monday on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia space observatory in an effort to create the most accurate and complete map of our galaxy. Astronomers hope to use the data to understand better how stars are born and die, and…
Milky Way Photographer of the Year Reveals Galactic Panoramas in ‘Magical’ Places, Meteors, and More
A strange breed of human, astrophotographers are known to race off from their homes into the mountains in the dead of night upon first hearing of snowfall. Layering up, grabbing his gear, and grabbing a coffee on the way, Nick Faulkner from New Zealand drove the back roads in the dark through several country towns,…
Astronomers Capture 1st Image of Milky Way’s Huge Black Hole
WASHINGTON—The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, with astronomers calling it a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their center, where…
Nebulous Milky Way Portraits in Wonder-Filled Winter Landscapes Captured by Astrophotographer in Slovenia
Uroš Fink fears not long treks in the freezing cold winter in meter high snow—not even in the dead of midnight. The 31-year-old astrophotographer from Slovenia is driven by a desire to take breathtaking images of our Milky Way. The young engineer with a passion for shooting the night sky set out last December on…
Astrophotographer Captures ‘Alien Throne’ Rock With Unbelievable Milky Way Backdrop in New Mexico Desert
January 24, 2022
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While many saw COVID-19 as a source of fear and anxiety—with its mandates and masks, vaccines, quarantines, and tests—last year, one Southern California nature and astronomy photographer saw the virus as an opportunity. “With the pandemic in full swing, it was the perfect time to drive to a remote desert and camp away from civilization…
Photographer Captures Peak of a Meteor Shower as Sparks Are Seen Shooting Across the Sky
A photographer captured the incredible peak of a meteor shower—as sparks were seen shooting across the night sky. Uroš Fink, 31, photographed the picturesque annual Perseid meteor shower from a mountain in Slovenia on Aug. 7. “I could hardly wait for the day to come. Every year I am full of expectations to see the…
Mysterious Radio Signals From the Center of the Milky Way Detected
By Entrepreneur en Español If something has become clear in recent years, it is that we are largely ignorant of what happens outside the Earth (also within it). Millionaires embody a battle to reach the Moon, Mars, and the ends of the galaxy, but there are countless unknowns. Such is the case with a mysterious…
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