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If successful, it could significantly reduce how bright satellites appear to telescopes – making the streaks they leave behind much fainter and easier to remove from astronomical images.
18 awesome images from the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards Our universe is vast and absolutely incredible. Popular Science Team Jul 15, 2025 1:00 PM EDT ...
The 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards shortlist has been revealed. Here are some of the best space images this year.
Discover how to rescue poorly tracked astro images with smart post-processing tricks — no perfect tracking needed!
It sounds crazy, but astronomers deliberately blur the images of stars with ESA’s CHEOPS telescope to improve precision. By spreading starlight across many pixels, they avoid single‑pixel ...
There may now be a partial solution to the luminous trails vexing astronomers. An ultra-black coating could be applied to the satellites themselves, dimming the trails that they leave in images. This ...
Check Out Ten Spectacular Space Images From the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images ...
NASA has unveiled a dazzling new collection of cosmic images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing spectacular stars and galaxies in unprecedented detail.
Every year, the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition brings together stunning views of the night sky from around the world. Organized by the Royal Observatory Greenwich and supported ...
Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.
Astronomers spot 'Ammonite', a distant world that questions planet nine Japan's Subaru Telescope in Hawaii detected a faint, icy body. Now named 2023 KQ14, or Ammonite, it lies well beyond Pluto.