Browsing: Astronomy

An astrophotographer spent 10 years documenting the full moon across Italy, revealing how atmospheric conditions and eclipses create the colors of the moon.

A professional astronomer describes Earth as a spooky planet in this Halloween image, capturing auroral displays over Iceland’s geothermal landscape.

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day highlights the Cepheus Flare, revealing the Ghost Nebula and Iris Nebula in a vast interstellar dust field.

A rare planetary alignment creates a glowing crescent arc around Venus, known as the horns, visible with binoculars during twilight.

A new deep image of the Orion Nebula highlights hydrogen emission and dust sheets in this nearby star-birth region. The Trapezium cluster sits within.

A new visualization from the Hayden Planetarium uses computer simulations to map the invisible dark matter filaments that structure the universe.

A unified dataset of nearly 3,000 Type Ia supernovae suggests dark energy changes over time, challenging the standard model of cosmology.

Astronomers have identified WD J1330+6435, a white dwarf star whose atmosphere takes on a green tint due to accreted trace elements, challenging the notion that stars are only white, red, or blue.

NASA has released a sonification of the Eagle Nebula, converting data from Hubble and Chandra telescopes into sound to represent the M16 star-forming region.

Mars and the Beehive cluster appear below an aurora over Sweden. A solar eruption on October 10, 2026, triggered the display captured near Lansjärv.