A Finnish astrophotographer created the 1.7 gigapixel image by stitching together photos with a total exposure ... among our picks for this week's best space pictures Victoria Jaggard Mysterious ...

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year, the annual photo competition showcasing all things space, is back. Ed Bloomer, senior astronomy manager at Royal Museums Greenwich, London, takes us on a tour ...

“The universe itself is the astrophotographer’s playground,” he says. This year’s winner – a deep-space photograph of the Andromeda galaxy by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann ...

“To travel in space is to be awestruck, over and over and over,” Pettit explains in his book, “Spaceborne,” a compilation of his best photos and some taken by his crewmates. Over his three ...

Earth from space This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by migrating sand dunes, helping researchers track how far these ...

MORE SPACE PHOTOS —Hubble spots a stellar 'H-bomb' exploding in Aquarius at 1 million mph —James Webb telescope spots the ultimate 'super star cluster' deep in the Milky Way —See the ...