NASA's Astrophoto Challenge
Try your hand at processing images from NASA's telescopes, or capture and process your own! The winter 2023 challenge is to create your own image of the Eagle Nebula/Pillars of Creation and includes data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
April 17th, 2023
NASA's Astrophoto Challenge | Summer 2023 | Introduction Video
This video introduces the "Phantom Galaxy," or Messier 74, as NASA's Astrophoto Challenge for the summer of 2023. Learn how you can make your very own astronomical image using data from space telescopes, or to request your very own observations from a robotic ground-based telescope!
January 3rd, 2023
Eagle Nebula – Understanding the Images | NASA's Astrophoto Challenge | Winter 2023
Join Marjorie Decleir, Alberto Noriega-Crespo, Paul Scowen, and Jesus Toala as they discuss the phenomenom of the Pillars of Creation and the surrounding Eagle Nebula.
November 28th, 2022
Eagle Nebula – Introduction Video | NASA's Astrophoto Challenge | Winter 2023
This video introduces the NASA's Astrophoto Challenge for the winter of 2023, which feature images of the Pillars of Creation and the surrounding Eagle Nebula. Learn how you can make your very own astronomical image!
May 2nd, 2022
NASA's Astrophoto Challenges 2022 | Introduction Video
This video introduces NASA's Astrophoto Challenges for the summer of 2022, which feature images of the massive star Eta Carinae and the surrounding Carina Nebula. Learn how you can make your very own astronomical image!
May 2nd, 2022
NASA's Astrophoto Challenges 2022 | Understanding Eta Carinae and the Carina Nebula
What happened to make the star Eta Carinae become the second brightest star in the sky in 1843? Why did it then dim over the next century and once again brighten? Join astronomers Rudy Montez, Joy Nichols, and Nathan Smith as they dive into the mysteries of this strange star and the incredible nebula that surrounds it. Then make your very own image of this incredible region!
July 1st, 2021
NASA's Astrophoto Challenges 2021 | NASA Data Challenge
Expert astronomers explore M87 at different wavelengths of light. All of the NASA images that the experts discuss here are available for you to work with in the NASA Data Challenge. Find them in the Challenge Images menu of JS9-4L.
July 1st, 2021
NASA's Astrophoto Challenges 2021 | Introduction Video
Watch this overview video to learn how to participate in the Astrophoto Challenges. You might also learn a thing or two about M87, and how you can find this object out in the night sky.
