NASA's Parker Solar Probe performed the closest-ever pass by the Sun late last year, and NASA has just released the remarkable images from the historic fly-by. [Read More]
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NASA's Jupiter probe has captured what is thought to be a bolt of lightning firing on the gas giant's surface.
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NASA's Juno probe has captured some of the most beautiful photos of Jupiter over the years, and now the space agency has formed a citizen scientist project so the public can help with the work of identifying atmospheric features of the gas giant captured by the probe. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-06-27 18:39
Illustration courtesy of NASA NASA has announced that the Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere, the corona, for the first time. While there, the probe sampled particles and magnetic fields and captured historic, close-up photos of coronal streamers. dpreview.com »
2021-12-16 20:17
The stunning photos sent back from the Mars Perseverence Rover have made it easy to miss the other beautiful imagery NASA spacecraft have been capturing. One such image you may have missed is this incredible new photo of Jupiter that was captured by the Juno Probe. Juno is a NASA space probe that orbits the […] petapixel.com »
2021-02-23 20:40
Since NASA's Juno probe entered Jupiter's orbit a year ago, it's been sending back high-resolution images of the solar system's biggest planet. When NASA released the latest batch of images, last month, German mathematician Gerald Eichstaedt got to work, turning them into into a video. dpreview.com »
2017-06-02 19:51
Five years after beginning its very long journey, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has beamed back photos of Jupiter’s poles for the first time… and they’re stunning. Juno, which is as large as a basketball court, travelled 415 million miles over the last 5 years to send us a first look at the extremities of the gas […] petapixel.com »
2017-03-31 23:44
Awe-inspiring scenes of the Milky Way, dancing aurorae, and serene galaxies all feature on the shortlist for this year’s ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year. [Read More]
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured a "once in a lifetime shot" on Sunday when the International Space Station (ISS) crossed the Sun just as a solar flare erupted from the star's surface. [Read More]
The European Space Agency's (ESA) historic Proba-3 mission, designed to create and study solar eclipses in orbit, has successfully made its first artificial eclipse in space, and the images are breathtaking. [Read More]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that its Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's poles from outside the ecliptic plane, or the plane that contains the Earth's orbit around the Sun. [Read More]
After a slight hiccup and one-day delay, the European Space Agency's incredible Proba-3 mission successfully launched into space. The Proba-3 mission will do something never seen before: it will precisely and repeatedly create solar eclipses in orbit using two satellites.
Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), which some hoped might be a nice Halloween treat and great follow-up act to the stunning comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) dazzled the skies throughout October, has evaporated after flying into the Sun.