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Astrophotographers ready yourselves: a planetary alignment involving Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will appear in the sky in the coming days.

Last Friday I was able to take photos I only thought were only possible in my dreams. As a professional landscape photographer, I have seen my fair share of beautiful northern lights in the Arctic, but I’ve always dreamed of seeing a strong aurora display in the Netherlands.

On March 30th, SpaceX launched a pair of its Falcon 9 rockets. After these rockets are launched and deploy their payloads, the primary part of the rocket separates from its reusable boosters, which undergo controlled deorbit burns. Arizona-based photographer Jeremy Perez photographed the deorbiting debris, and his images have puzzled and amazed viewers.

Gifted astrophotographer, author, and educator Alyn Wallace tragically passed away last week at the young age of 34.

Award-winning astrophotographer Mihail Minkov is best known for his landscape images that heavily feature the night sky and the Milky Way in particular. Over the past year, Minkov has been working on a single-exposure nightscape project focused on incorporating people into his compositions.

Airglow, not to be confused with auroras, is a colorful atmospheric phenomenon typically visible to typical cameras only in very dark and clear night sky conditions. The sky above New York City definitely doesn't qualify as "dark," but that doesn't mean it's impossible to photograph airglow, as Ty Buckley has shown in new YouTube videos.

The Quadrantids meteor shower, predicted to be one of the strongest meteor showers of 2024, is slated to peak tonight, January 3, into early tomorrow morning.

NASA has shared its monthly update for what skygazers should look for in the night sky in December.

Thanks to a powerful solar storm, photographers at high latitudes may be treated to fantastic northern lights displays tonight in the United States and Canada.

To reveal the real colors of the night skies, you need to find good dark skies. The best sky quality for astrophotography is found in locations classified as Bortle Class 1 on the Bortle scale, which measures night sky brightness.

NASA has released a guide to the night sky this July pointing out which celestial objects will be prominent and highlighting that it is one of the best times of year to capture the Milky Way Galaxy.

NASA has released a guide to the night sky for May with the main opportunities for astrophotographers coming from planets rising in proximity to the Moon.

A stunning green comet will be visible from Earth in the coming days, even with the naked eye, giving photographers an opportunity to capture the comet that won't appear again for another 50,000 years.

One of the gorgeous niches of nighttime landscape imaging is aurora photography, which shows the dazzling natural light shows seen in the sky when charged particles from the Sun ripple across Earth's magnetic field.

Astrophotographer Göran Strand captured not one, but two rare celestial phenomenons in the same image yesterday.

Ron Risman captured beautiful timelapse scenes around Moab, Utah, -- including the less visited, yet just as picturesque locations -- to demonstrate the diversity of the area found outside of the wildly popular Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.

Travel and adventure photography blog Capture the Atlas has published its annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year collection that showcases the best night sky captures from all around the world.

Astrophotography. We hear the term tossed around a lot these days but what actually is it? The true definition of the word is photography of the nighttime sky. The sky only—at night.

My love of astronomy started way back as a child when my dad bought a Celestron C8 telescope. I remember spending hours with him searching to find a single dark sky object. This love of the night sky stuck with me and it wasn't until 2012 I made a New Year's resolution to go out for one night each month near the new moon to do astronomy, astrophotography, and time-lapse of the night sky.

Last week saw the last few days to see and photograph Comet Leonard after sunset at the horizon where I am located in Spain, and when my fellow photographer Javier Martinez Moran asked me to join him in an attempt to catch the comet passing behind the iconic Four Towers of Madrid, I couldn’t say no!

The Chinese lens filter brand Haida has announced its new NanoPro Soft Diffusion Filters. The lens filters are designed specifically for capturing soft photos of the starry night sky.

Australian photographer Donald Yip went out into the desert on a clear night, found an abandoned bus, and captured this remarkable "halo" photo using drone light painting.

I recently photographed the Milky Way over Lion Rock in Piha, New Zealand. Some people were asking how this shot was created, so I thought I'd share some of the steps.