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Astrophotography FAILS: The bad habits ruining your shots
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
Astrophotography is a pursuit that balances technical discipline with creative expression. For newcomers, the journey from capturing raw data to presenting a stunning final image is both exciting and intimidating. Along the way, however, many photographers, particularly beginners, fall into common t...
Wall of fire found by Voyager at solar system boundary
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
After nearly five decades of exploration, NASA's legendary Voyager spacecraft have revealed a dramatic and previously elusive frontier at the edge of our Solar System, a turbulent, superheated region of plasma where the protective bubble around our Sun collides with the harsh environment of inte...
Supernova light echo captured by Hubble
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
It’s not every day that a telescope 340 miles above Earth drops a view that feels more like science fiction than astrophysics, but when Hubble turned its attention toward a stellar explosion that happened ten million years ago, it gave the world something close to time travel. Not the shiny, w...
Tarantula Nebula outskirts explored by Hubble
Sunday, February 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
The image of the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts, as documented by Hubble, provides a glimpse into the intricate and chaotic processes that occur in stellar nurseries. The nebula's fringes are marked by complex interactions between stars and the surrounding interstellar medium, leading to the c...