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- My Best Image of the Andromeda Galaxy Yet November 4, 2025Last updated: November 4, 2025. If you find this helpful and buy through my links, I may receive a small commission. My latest photo of the Andromeda Galaxy is my best effort yet. I have been taking deep-sky astrophotography images for almost 15 years now, and this might be my favorite photo of space I’ve... […]Trevor Jones
- This Telescope Autofocuser Took My Astrophotography to the Next Level October 23, 2025Last updated: October 23, 2025. If you find this helpful and buy through my links, I may receive a small commission. Over the years, I’ve spent countless nights under the stars chasing crisp, deep-sky images from my backyard. But this fall, I added something new to my telescope that completely changed the way I capture... […]Trevor Jones
- Newfoundland Road Trip: Dark Skies, Camping, & Stargazing September 29, 2025This summer, we traded in our usual short camping trips for a big adventure: three weeks on the road to Newfoundland. We drove more than 6,000 KM (3,728 miles), stayed at 12 campgrounds, hiked trails, worked from the road, visited breweries, and explored new cities – all with Rudy in tow. This was... […]Ashley Northcotte
NASA Solar System & Beyond
- Europa Clipper Captures Uranus With Star Tracker Camera November 20, 2025Description NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield — and the planet Uranus — on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation. Within the camera’s field of view — representing 0.1% of the full sky around the spacecraft […]
- NASA’s Quesst Mission Marks X-59’s Historic First Flight November 20, 2025NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28, 2025, at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA test pilot Nils Larson flew […]Monika Luabeya
- NASA’s Scott Tingle to Serve as Agency’s Chief Astronaut November 20, 2025NASA named astronaut Scott Tingle as chief of the Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, effective Nov. 10. A decorated spaceflight veteran and former captain in the United States Navy, Tingle has logged more than 4,500 flight hours in 51 different aircraft and served as a flight engineer aboard the International […]Wendy K. Avedisian
Sky & Telescope
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 21 – 30 November 21, 2025Saturn's rings are now the closest to edge on that they'll get. The famous interstellar comet has become higher and easier for amateur telescopes before dawn. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 21 – 30 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.Alan MacRobert
- Updates on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: NASA Images, Many Tails, and Non-gravitational Forces November 20, 2025Now that Comet 3I/ATLAS has emerged from the Sun's glare, its behavior is being monitored by every available observatory. The post Updates on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: NASA Images, Many Tails, and Non-gravitational Forces appeared first on Sky & Telescope.David L. Chandler
- Meet the Seven Sisters’ 3,000 Lost Siblings November 19, 2025The Pleiades star cluster is part of a much larger complex that stretches across the entire sky, a new study shows. The post Meet the Seven Sisters’ 3,000 Lost Siblings appeared first on Sky & Telescope.Jan Hattenbach
Phil’s Astronomy Blog
- Hello out there? October 12, 2021Anybody still coming here?Phil
- Markarian's Chain in Virgo April 13, 2018My own Hubble View! These galaxies lie between 10 to 50 million light years away. How many galaxies do you see? A pretty tricky part of the sky to image, really. You're utilizing almost your entire field of view with an 80mm scope, so dealing with all that comes with wide-field. This is the best […]Phil
- M51 Whirlpool Galaxy April 9, 2018A nice clear night last night until around 12:30 when clouds rolled in. Managed to get this image of the lovely M51 Whirlpool galaxy. It lies around 23 million light years away and it is interacting with a smaller galaxy (yellow~ish bulge to the left). Three supernova (star explosions) have been detected in this galaxy […]Phil