Space has fascinated mankind since the dawn of time. With myths and legends about the bodies in our solar system, and the sun (as well as other bodies) worshipped and revered as gods, all the way up through modern science, space has kept our attention and continues to hold mysteries.
Astrophotography is the art of taking photographs of outer space, which can be accomplished from the ground using a camera, or using a camera and telescope, or from the air. Some of the best known astrophotographs are taken from the Hubble space telescope. But we can’t capture everything with just cameras yet, so many artists also use photomanipulation to depict the stars.
Here’s some of the most eye-catching space photographs and manipulations to fascinate you:
Hyakutake By Christian Klepp
Comet By Paul Fleet
Orbital Station By Marko Magister
Orion nebula By Ilya Smirnov
Pipe Stem Nebula By Paul Stewart
Milkyway starfield By Stefan Holm
Neutron Star Collision By Anton Fofonov
Quick Creation By Andrew
The Lunar By Daniel Joseph
Rosette Nebula By Nelson Amorin
Andromeda galaxy By Attila Bódi
The stars talk about the past By Matteo Morino
Rho Opiuchi By Álvaro Pérez & Jose M. Pérez. Brothers
Horsehead Nebula (IC 434) By Álvaro Pérez & Jose M. Pérez. Brothers
Andromeda galaxy By YASUAKI SEGAWA
the Moon By Alessandro Lo Piccolo
Comet moving passing planet earth By Johan Swanepoel
Earth sunrise over cloudy ocean with no stars By Johan Swanepoel
Upper halv of moon By Kenneth Thunø
Todays moon By Kenneth Thunø
Restless Wanderer By Levin Dieterle
Lunar By Jon D
Lunar Landscape By Daniel Robb
Incredibly beautiful spiral galaxy somewhere in deep space By Vadim Sadovski
Pleiades By YASUAKI SEGAWA
Elephant’s trunk nebula By Álvaro Pérez & Jose M. Pérez. Brothers
Drifting By James Sanny
space By viaphototest
4K Planet Earth By James Cawley
Untitled By Dima Gnyloryba
