The endless expanse of space makes a beautiful, vibrant, mysterious and fascinating subject for photography. Let the photographs be shot by mobile phones or a DSLR, captured by a space telescope or sent by the farthest Voyager spacecraft, they are sure to pop your eyes out.
From the dramatic births and deaths of stars to iconic images of our Earth, from galactic glamour shots to extreme stellar close-ups, from launches and landings to crucial space announcements, this category features some of the most breathtaking and iconic space photographs that have made news across the world.
The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) is a deep-field photograph of an estimated 10,000 galaxies in the constellation Fornax. The Hubble Space Telescope gathered the primary data for the image from September 2003 to January 2004. It contains light from galaxies that existed approximately 13...
This is the clearest image we’ve yet captured of the sun’s surface. It was caught on the first day of watching our star by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, the world’s largest solar telescope. The honeycomb-like pattern is made up of plasma cells that roil...
This dazzling photo is of Moon and Earth together captured by Chang’e-5 T1. The Moon looks significantly larger than the more distant Earth in this remarkable farside view. It was photographed on October 28, 2014.
Read More: Chang’e 5-T1 – Wikipedia
Earthrise is a picture of Earth taken from the moon overlooking the moon’s surface taken by the astronaut William Anders from lunar orbit on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Galen Rowell, a nature photographer, addressed the photo as “the most influential...
What you see right up there is the first image of a real black hole! It was captured in 1974; a big thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope. So far, there have been plenty of strong evidence for black holes: bursts of radiation, gravitational waves, or dynamic impacts on other bodies that...
The Voyager 1 spacecraft sent by NASA directed its cameras to snap one more historic array of planetary photos on February 14, 1990. The spacecraft took one of the most historical images of Earth, named ‘Pale Blue Dot.’ The image was taken from a record distance of about 6 billion...
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