Astronomer Evenings is back (with a fresh new flyer!) this Friday, September 27! Join CIERA researchers for an unforgettable night learning and observing at Dearborn!

Here's a 30 minute timelapse of last night's incredible aurora! #northernlights

Some more photos of the #northernlights from dark skies in Wisconsin

At 'only' 2.5 million light years away, this is the Andromeda Galaxy, the sister galaxy to our own Milky Way! Andromeda was one of the first 'deep space' targets I captured when I began astrophotography, and it was rewarding to revisit the beautiful galaxy this fall

The November Supermoon and Jupiter

Selected from more than 500 entries across five scientific categories, see the remaining category winners and runners up here: royalsociety.org/news/2024/12/p…

Thrilled that my image of the Heart and Soul Nebulae was selected as the Astronomy winner in the Royal Society Publishing 2024 Photography Competition! Thank you for this honor, Royal Society Publishing! 🌌 #RSPPhotoComp

Congratulations to CIERA graduate student Imran Sultan (Imran Sultan) on winning the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition Astronomy category...for the second consecutive year! ciera.northwestern.edu/2024/12/11/gra…

Heart and Soul: Grad student Imran Sultan wins global photography competition for the second year in a row 💜📸 Sultan's photo of Heart and Soul Nebulae—found in the Cassiopeia constellation—won the 2024 The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition's astronomy category.

Tomorrow night there will be a rare astronomical event called a lunar occultation. For about an hour, the Moon will eclipse planet Mars. Here is my video of the last time this happened in December 2022

Over the moon to share that my image of this week's lunar occultation of Mars is featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day! 🔭Huge thanks to @APOD for this honor. Captured on a freezing night in Des Plaines, Illinois-- see it here apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250115.…

Does the Moon ever engulf Mars? Yes, but only in the sense that it moves in front, which happens on rare occasions. This happened just yesterday, though, as seen from some locations in North America and western Africa. This occultation was notable not only because the Moon was a

Thank you Miguel Tsang and The Daily Northwestern for this lovely feature! Your article beautifully captures my journey of photographing the night sky over the past few years

Ten breathtaking astrophotography images you should see right now (January 2025) diyphotography.net/ten-breathtaki…

Did you catch last week's blood moon? Don't worry if not, graduate student Imran Sultan has you covered 🌝 The blood moon was visible during a total lunar eclipse, when Earth cast its shadow over the moon.

CIERA Weinberg College at Northwestern Lucky for us, Imran Sultan was ready to capture the phenomenon—filming the entire event, which lasted about four hours early Friday morning, using a refractor telescope and DSLR camera.

Excited to give a talk next week for the Art of Science outreach series in Pilsen! I’ll be sharing my work on galaxy simulations and astrophotography-- flyer below!

🎇 On June 26, Imran Sultan, Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern's CIERA & award-winning astrophotographer, spoke at Parlour & Ramp Gallery on simulating galaxies & capturing the cosmos. 🌌 Explore his work: imransultan.com | $.astro | Imran Sultan #astrophysics