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Astrophotography in September 2026: get your camera ready for the equinox auroras and a final glimpse of the Milky Way’s core

Everything you need to know about what’s worth photographing in the night skies over the coming month

Digital Camera World · Sep 1

The earliest galaxy 'swallowed' by the cannibal Milky Way left a scar at its heart

The earliest example of the Milky Way cannibalising a smaller galaxy for its growth involved a cosmic meal that left a scar at the heart of our galaxy.

Space · Aug 24

Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It zooms around our black hole at 15,500 miles per second

Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

Space · Aug 19

Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago

Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across the sky. But our galaxy has a violent past.

The Conversation · Aug 17

How an ancient collision with another galaxy transformed the Milky Way

The Milky Way has a secret history of galaxy mergers that we are only now starting to uncover.

Space · Aug 17

"This photo captures the first full Milky Way arch ever taken at this location," revealing the night sky over Argentina's UNESCO site, a landscape shaped over 200 million years and home to Earth's only complete Triassic record

Award-winning astrophotographer captured the first-of-its-kind astrophotography image at UNESCO World Heritage Site in Argentina, an irreplaceable geological landscape

Digital Camera World · Aug 3

This mesmerizing image of a galactic mangrove won a photography award – and it stopped me in my tracks

Japanese photographer Ryuhei Suguri took this incredible shot of a solitary mangrove beneath the starry Milky Way sky, snagging a win at the 2026 Mangrove Photography Awards

Digital Camera World · Aug 1

Meet the astronomer digging for Milky Way ‘fossils’

GRONINGEN, Netherlands - Amina Helmi’s passion for the Milky Way is clear as soon as one steps into her small office at the University of Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands.

Bangkok Post · Jul 30

Meet the astronomer using ‘cosmic fossils’ to investigate the Milky Way's violent birth

Vast cosmic collisions over tens of billions of years have shaped our galaxy into the Milky Way that we see in the night sky today. Galactic archaeologist Amina Helma has dedicated her life to unearthing the "cosmic fossils" that help us decipher our galaxy's violent birth – and give us…

France 24 · Jul 30

Our Milky Way galaxy appears to have flipped 90 degrees long ago. But why?

A slowly rotating stellar halo was the clue to a major and unknown event in the Milky Way's history that saw the spiral disc flip over by more than 90 degrees.

Space · Jul 28