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The Sky at Night TV show, past, present and future INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
|October 2022
In September's episode of The Sky at Night, Jen Gupta looked at how ever more stunning astronomical photos have revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos
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Saying this will probably get me in trouble with my art-loving colleagues, but... I don't think there's a painting in the world that can compare to the beauty of the Universe.
From the classic 'Pillars of Creation' photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, to Curiosity Rover's selfies on Mars, and now the stunning first images coming from the James Webb Space Telescope, photographs of (and from) space are a source of inspiration to countless people around the world. But these images aren't just taken so that space nerds like me have pretty pictures to use as our computer backgrounds. Astrophotography has fundamentally changed our understanding of the Universe.
This story is from the October 2022 edition of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
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