Blue purple aurora photographed in Norway. (Image credit: marouan touil via Getty Images) Blue and purple auroras are even less common and also tend to appear during periods of high solar activity.

Hubble Space Telescope Hubble spies a skewed spiral galaxy | Space photo of the day for May 5, 2025. ... Whirlpool Galaxy Glows Purple and Blue in Amateur Photo. News.

First observed by sky watchers in Alberta, Canada, in 2017, this strange ray of purple and blue light is often seen as a large arc or band in the night sky.

The Cartwheel Galaxy, some 500 million light years from Earth, glows a luminous purple in this image made by combining observations of both the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space ...

Since a star emitting purple light also sends out blue light — the two colors are next to one another on ... Elizabeth Howell was staff reporter at Space.com between 2022 and 2024 and a regular ...

What should we look for when trying to find life beyond Earth? Should it be the familiar green and blue colors that we see thriving on our small, blue planet, or something else entirely? This is what ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s space hardware team has delivered a payload for NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-R satellite. LLNL developed the optical payload, called Deep Purple – ...