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A large spiral galaxy with sweeping spiral arms and a glowing core shines against a sea of stars.

Astrophotographer spies a spiral galaxy bursting with starbirth (photo)

By Anthony Wood published

"This is one of my favourite galaxies for testing new equipment."

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An image of a comet in black and white with lines streaking across the image.

Comet Lemmon photos are plagued by satellite streaks. Here's how amateur astronomers face the problem

By Anthony Wood published

"Every single subframe I take (prior to stacking) now contains at least one, and usually more than one satellite streak."

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A colorful deep space nebula cloud dominates the center of an image, suspended against a distant starfield. The near-circular edge of the cloud is colored ochre, while the center is a pale blue. Dark twists of matter are also visible.

Astrophotographer captures the Elephant Trunk Nebula in breathtaking detail (photo)

By Anthony Wood published

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is located 2,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus.

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a close up view of the sun with a fiery tendril extending from the surface out into space and looping back down. the sun's surface looks fuzzy and soft, like you'd want to touch it - but you really shouldn't.

Astrophotographer captures fiery plasma dancing above the sun in stunning close-up video

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Astrophotographer Mark Johnstron captured a mesmerizing cloud of hydrogen plasma dancing above the sun's limb in this breathtaking video.

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two panel image showing a bright flash on the moon with a circle around it highlighting the location.

Astronomer captures 2 meteors slamming into the moon (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

The brief flashes were captured from Earth and could be from the Taurid meteor shower.

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A deep space scene is pictured featuring glowing red nebula clouds that form the outline of a bat's body and wings, threaded with dark filaments of interstellar gas against a teeming starfield.

Astronomers capture vast cosmic bat spreading its wings in time for Halloween (photo)

By Anthony Wood published

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane.

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clouds of gas and dust look like a spooky jack-o'-lantern.

Spooky space: 12 haunting images of our cosmos

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

Here are some of the most spine-chilling space photos to scare your pants off this Halloween.

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A comet is pictured with a bright nucleus in the lower right of an image against the blackness of space, with a long tail extending diagonally to the upper right of the shot. A spiral or light is pictured, appearing to wrap around the comet and its tail, created by the trail of a passing meteor.

Glowing meteor trail photobombs Comet Lemmon in incredible telescope footage. 'A pure perspective miracle'

By Anthony Wood published

A meteor photobombed the patch of sky containing Comet Lemmon on Oct. 24, wrapping it in a glowing trail.

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A deep space nebula scene showing a bubble-like shell of cosmic dust and gas shining red and blue against a black sky peppered with bright stars.

Cosmic 'brain' ponders the cosmos in colorful new photo of the Medulla Nebula

By Anthony Wood published

Light from the ancient supernova remnant was captured over the course of 50 hours in September 2025.

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A swirling deep space nebula is pictured that takes the vague shape of a cartoonish human heart. The centre of the heart nebula is a pale blue/teal, while the outside is formed of dense dusty filaments of yellow and brown. A colorful starfield is visible in the background.

A cosmic heart bursts with light in new deep space astrophotographer portrait (photo)

By Anthony Wood published

The Heart Nebula shines 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.

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