600-Megapixel Euclid Telescope Captures ‘Einstein Ring’ Encircling Nearby Galaxy

The Euclid space telescope discovered something incredible in the Milky Way's cosmic neighborhood, a spectacular Einstein ring. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-2-11 00:22

The Final Images from NASA’s Burned-Up NEOWISE Space Telescope

Launched in December 2009, the Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) ended its mission on July 31, 2024, and, as expected, reentered Earth's atmosphere on November 1, burning up. petapixel.com »

2024-12-5 00:41

The 10 Best James Webb Space Telescope Photos (So Far)

The James Webb Space Telescope just celebrated its second birthday, having started service on July 12, 2022. Here are Webb's 10 best photos so far to mark the occasion. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-7-20 15:00

This $479 Smart Telescope Lets Anyone Shoot Beautiful Astro Photos

"Smart telescopes" are all the rage, thanks to the ease with which novice stargazers can use them to capture beautiful photos of the cosmos. However, they're often expensive. petapixel.com »

2024-7-19 20:00

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is Having Difficulties

NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has been going into protective "safe mode" after having issues with one of its three remaining gyroscopes forcing it to suspend science operations. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-6-5 17:22

AI Finds Nearly 30,000 Unknown Asteroids in Existing Telescope Photos

Artificial intelligence is used for a lot more generating fake images, scientists also use it to locate patterns in data that would otherwise have been impossible to see. petapixel.com »

2024-5-4 23:56

MagSafe Telescope Adapter Turns iPhone into Accessible Astro Camera

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 or spotting scope. petapixel.com »

2024-3-7 01:08

Earth-Sized Virtual Telescope Reveals Nearby Black Hole’s Energy Outflows

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration and scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Germany used an Earth-sized radio telescope array to observe the jet base of an evolving plasma jet outflow from a supermassive black hole at an unprecedented angular resolution. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-6 00:28

NASA Wants to Put a High-Res Telescope Camera Array on the Moon

A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has proposed a design for a lunar-based multi-camera telescope array that could start small, but expand to be much larger over time. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-1-29 20:58

Unistellar’s New $4,000 Odyssey Pro Smart Telescope Has Nikon Optics

Unistellar, makers of intelligent, automated telescopes like the eQuinox 2, announced two new telescopes at CES: the Odyssey and the Odyssey Pro. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-1-8 21:17

The Best James Webb Space Telescope Photos of 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has wrapped up its first full year of scientific operations, and beyond "breaking" cosmology, the telescope has also delivered some of the most spectacular photos of deep space ever seen. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-12-31 16:26

The Vaonis Hestia Smartphone Telescope Has a Clever New App

In July, telescope company Vaonis announced Hestia, its first smartphone telescope. Ahead of Hestia's scheduled December delivery date, Vaonis has announced Gravity by Vaonis, a beta app for the telescope. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-12-15 21:37

Canadian Space Telescope CASTOR Aims to Take the Reins from Hubble

Although the Hubble Space Telescope has had a heck of a run, it cannot last forever. Astronomers have been planning for Hubble's retirement for many years, and a Canadian telescope called CASTOR may be the best candidate to fill the inevitable void in ultraviolet space exploration. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-12-13 00:39

Space Telescope on a Quest to Solve Dark Matter Delivers First Images

The Euclid space telescope, an instrument designed to solve the greatest mystery of the Universe, has sent back its first stunning images. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-11-8 15:01

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Still Got It

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is often overshadowed by the shiny new observatory in the room, the James Webb Space Telescope, but its latest photo of a gorgeous spiral galaxy is a nice reminder that ol' reliable can still impress. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-11-3 18:33

Webb Space Telescope Captures Ethereal View of a Stellar Nursery

Among the James Webb Space Telescope's many scientific objectives are providing astronomers and physicists unprecedented looks at areas where stars are being born. These stellar nurseries are not only of great scientific importance, but they are also visually spectacular. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-10-13 22:32

Unistellar eQuinox 2 Review: An Expensive But Easy Telescope Camera

Most "serious" astrophotographers will balk at the idea of a smart telescope. While it may miss some of the professional level tools, resolution, and precision, the $2,499 eQuinox 2 from Unistellar does provide easy access to the cosmos for up to 10 viewers at a time, making it a great (albeit expensive) tool for beginners and casual stargazers to enjoy viewing interstellar objects in minutes. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-9-22 18:43

Webb Telescope Photo Shows What Our Baby Sun Looked Like

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an image of Herbig-Haro 211 that is an "infantile analog" of the Sun when it was just a baby star with a mass of about one-twelfth the present-day Sun. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-9-18 17:02

45,000 Galaxies Sparkle in New James Webb Telescope Photo

"Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form?" NASA writes. The James Webb Space Telescope hasn't been in space long, but it's already delivering critical insights into this monumental question. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-6-7 23:38

World’s Most Powerful Solar Telescope Captures Hellish Photos of the Sun

Earth's most powerful solar telescope has captured new images of the Sun, zooming in on sunspots and showing them in nightmarish detail. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-5-25 22:39

SuperBIT Telescope Captures Space from a Stadium-Sized Balloon

The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was recently carried about 20.5 miles (32.9 kilometers) above Earth's surface on a massive NASA helium balloon, capturing the balloon-based telescope's first research images. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-4-25 19:46

NASA’s Roman Telescope Prepares to Solve the Mysteries of the Universe

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (NGRST or Roman) will feature two primary instruments, a 300. 8-megapixel infrared Wide Field Instrument (WFI) and a Coronagraph designed for studying faint objects, when it launches in 2027. petapixel.com »

2023-4-20 23:06

’60 Minutes’ Investigates Deep Space and the James Webb Space Telescope

Since NASA shared the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope last July, astronomers have been busy using the telescope to study the cosmos and uncover new information about the origins of the universe. petapixel.com »

2023-4-13 00:34

Nikon is Investing in Smart Telescope Company Unistellar

Nikon has announced that it has invested a financial stake in Unistellar SAS, a France-based smart telescope company. Nikon says that it hopes the investment will promote "the creation of business synergies" for both companies. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-4-6 20:00

Supernova First Spotted 1,800 Years Ago Captured on Telescope Camera

A supernova witnessed by Chinese astronomers in the year 185 A.D. has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera telescope.

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2023-3-7 18:28

Webb Telescope Photographs a Milky Way-Like Spiral Galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope has recently captured a large spiral galaxy that resembles Earth's own Milky Way Galaxy that exists a little over a billion light years away. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-2-15 00:18

Telescope Camera Captures Mysterious Swirling Whirlpool

A swirling whirlpool appeared in the night sky above Hawaii earlier this month leaving researchers astonished.

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2023-2-1 20:42

Unistellar’s New eQuinox 2 Telescope Can See Through Light Pollution

Unistellar has announced the eQuinox 2, a smart telescope that it says is so powerful that even users in light-polluted cities and suburbs can gaze upon everything from planets in the Solar System to galaxies far beyond. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-1-6 18:36

The Best Images Taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) blasted off into space on December 25, 2021. Since then readers have been treated to a series of stunning images of the cosmos. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-12-29 21:01

NASA’s NEOWISE Telescope Has Taken a 12-Year Timelapse of the Entire Sky

NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or NEOWISE, spacecraft captures images in all directions as it circles the Sun. Using all 18 sky maps it has taken thus far, scientists have created what they say is a timelapse movie of the sky that spans more than a decade. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-10-21 23:29

James Webb Telescope Captures Cosmic Dust ‘Fingerprint’

A fascinating new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captures 17 dust rings that resemble a fingerprint created by a rare type of star. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-10-14 16:43

James Webb Telescope Captures Clear Photo of Neptune’s Rings and Moons

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a photo of Neptune that displays the clearest view of the planet's rings in more than 30 years. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-22 20:57

One of the James Webb Telescope’s Cameras is Having a Mechanical Issue

NASA has paused the use of one of the modes on the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) due to what it describes as "increased friction" that occurs during its setup phase ahead of new observations. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-22 18:33

New Super-Powerful Solar Telescope Captures Detailed Photos of the Sun

The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) is celebrating the successful inauguration of the world's most powerful solar telescope, the Inouye Solar Telescope, through a pair of extremely detailed photos of the Sun's chromosphere. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-9 20:19

James Webb Telescope’s Deep Field Photo is Being Used to Spread Malware

One of the first five photos to be taken by the James Webb Space Telescope is being used by malicious actors to spread malware, as identified by securities analytics platform Securonix. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-7 19:07

James Webb Telescope Captures its First Photo of a Distant Planet

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first direct image of a planet outside the Solar System. This exoplanet is a gas giant that has six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter and is relatively young: between 15 and 20 million years old. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-2 17:34

NASA Turns James Webb Telescope’s First Photos Into Music

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team has translated some of the telescope's first photos into music. Called sonification, the goal is to make the JWST's image and data understandable through sound to help listeners create their own mental images. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-2 20:07

James Webb Space Telescope Captures Jupiter’s Dazzling Auroras

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has aimed its impressive camera system relatively close to home and captured a pair of gorgeous photos of Jupiter's auroras. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-8-23 18:51

$1B Giant Magellan Telescope to Have 4x the Resolution of James Webb

The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered, has secured a new $205M funding infusion that will be used to accelerate its construction. petapixel.com »

2022-8-10 19:06

Top Scientist Admits Webb Telescope Star Photo Was Actually Chorizo

A prominent French physicist is apologizing after admitting that a viral "distant star" photo he shared on Twitter was not actually captured by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but was rather just a slice of chorizo pork sausage. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-8-7 17:58

James Webb Telescope Captures Incredible Photo of ‘Cartwheel Galaxy’

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a follow-up to its first images that were revealed last month. The photo is of the Cartwheel Galaxy and is a composite image created from its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-8-2 20:01

Photographer Creates DIY Telescope to Snap Incredible Photos of the Moon

A photographer has used his 3D printer to create an impressive 900mm reflector telescope that is so simple to put together that "it’s like assembling furniture from IKEA." [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-29 21:01

Telescope Made from Multiple Canon Lenses is Hunting for Galaxies

Canon has partnered with an Australian university to bundle 10 Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS II lenses together into what they call the Huntsman Telescope to scout the skies from the Southern Hemisphere. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-26 22:47

James Webb Telescope Breaks Record for Oldest Galaxy Ever Observed

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the oldest galaxy ever observed by nearly 100 million years. The galaxy, called GLASS-z13, dates to just 300 million years after the big bang. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-20 18:54

The James Webb Telescope Stores its Photos on a Small 68GB SSD

The James Webb Space Telescope is capturing photos of the universe in remarkable resolution, but it only has enough onboard storage to keep about a day's worth of photos at a time. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-19 19:32

James Webb Telescope Quietly Captured a Gorgeous Photo of Jupiter

The James Web Space Telescope team is fresh off the exciting reveal of the telescope's first full-color photographs, but those images aren't the only ones the observatory has captured. petapixel.com »

2022-7-14 17:38

Pillars of Creation: $16B Space Telescope vs $500 Backyard Photo

Photographer Andrew McCarthy recreated NASA's famous "Pillars of Creation" photograph of the Eagle Nebula using a $500 telescope. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-5 19:56

Webb Telescope Struck by Meteorite: Here’s Why NASA Isn’t Worried

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments was struck by a micrometeoroid and while it has been damaged, NASA says it's not cause for alarm and the telescope is still on schedule. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-6-14 19:03

NASA announces first full-color images from Webb Space Telescope coming July 12

NASA has announced that it will release the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12. There's even a countdown on the dedicated Webb Space Telescope website. dpreview.com »

2022-6-7 18:09

James Webb Telescope’s First Full-Color Photos to be Released on July 12

The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first full-color images and spectroscopic data on July 12, and a countdown clock has been added to the telescope's website. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-6-2 21:21