To celebrate the Chandra X-ray Observatory’s 25th birthday, NASA has released 25 beautiful, never-before-seen images captured by Chandra. Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) is one of NASA’s legendary series of “Great Observatories,” alongside the venerable Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space …
Astrophotographers ready yourselves: a planetary alignment involving Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will appear in the sky in the coming days. In the small hours of June 3 and June 4 (Monday and Tuesday), six planets will parade in the sky as well as a bonus of a waning crescent Moon. However, it …
Astronomers have unveiled a colossal image of the Vela Supernova Remnant, the breathtaking remains of a star that went supernova 11,000 years ago. This image is the largest ever made of this object, boasting a mind-blowing 1.3 billion pixels. For comparison, that’s over 25 times more pixels than your average smartphone camera! Astronomers used the …
Back to Article List From night-sky landscapes to deep-sky objects, the entrants to the second annual contest submitted a variety of stunning images. The Milky Way is reflected in the lake Stat Tso, located at in the mountain pass of Pensi La Pass in the Zanskar Valley in the Ladakh region. This image won the …