r/spaceporn Jan 27 '20

the very first simulated image of a black hole, calculated using a 1960s punch card IBM 7040 computer and plotted by hand by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

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r/spaceporn Feb 08 '18

[oc][1700x1200] Falcon Heavy flame fire detail, one of several zooms from a larger image

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r/spaceporn Aug 23 '21

NASA Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in the frame of this picture, 1969.

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r/spaceporn Feb 10 '21

Related Content The Rosette Nebula, some say depicts a human skull

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r/spaceporn Mar 05 '21

NASA Perseverance started moving

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r/spaceporn Mar 31 '21

Amateur/Composite I pointed my telescope at the moon and intentionally misaligned the RGB channels to create this stunning composite image.

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r/spaceporn Oct 05 '21

NASA New Zealand seen from the International Space Station

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r/spaceporn Nov 16 '22

NASA Insanely detailed image of the Artemis I launch!

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r/spaceporn Jan 29 '20

I photographed this tower of plasma on the Sun last week. It stands taller than four Earth-diameters ... roughly the size of Uranus. [OC]

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r/spaceporn Sep 09 '17

Fukang Meteorite [1280x650]

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r/spaceporn Nov 30 '23

Related Content First ever direct image of multi planet star system

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TYC 8998-760-1 b captured by European Southern Observatory’s SPHERE instrument shows what is likely the first star we’ve directly imaged with multiple exoplanets


r/spaceporn Dec 29 '20

Related Content Jupiter. Juno probe took this shot.

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r/spaceporn Jun 07 '20

My luckiest night ever - Meteor and the Milky Way with Venus rising [OC]

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r/spaceporn Nov 03 '22

Amateur/Processed There has to be life on one of these dots.

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r/spaceporn Aug 20 '21

NASA 48 different colors of the moon, all photographed in a time span of 10 years

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r/spaceporn Sep 23 '24

Pro/Processed No That's not a comet. That's the planet MERCURY WITH ITS SODIUM TAIL. (Credit: Dr. Sebastian Voltmer)

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r/spaceporn Apr 05 '20

Caught the space station with a $17 webcam on my telescope [OC]

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r/spaceporn Aug 18 '17

From a Million Miles Away, a Camera Aboard NASA's DISCOVR Spacecraft Shows the Moon Crossing the Face of the Earth [2048 x 2048]

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r/spaceporn Sep 05 '19

Descent stage for Mars 2020. Very excited to start working on this mission.

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r/spaceporn Oct 06 '20

Related Content On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy.

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r/spaceporn Sep 26 '19

New NASA visualization of black hole

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r/spaceporn Oct 01 '22

Related Content The last photo from the surface of Venus is now 40 yrs old! The Venera-14 lander reached the surface in 1982, lasting 52 minutes in Venus' temperature of 450°C (847°F)!

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r/spaceporn Mar 01 '22

Amateur/Unedited I live in a Ukrainian city, lights are off because of war, beautiful view has opened

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r/spaceporn Sep 12 '21

Art/Render Aligned Planets but this time Pluto is included (4k)

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r/spaceporn Jan 17 '18

Meteor Explodes Over Michigan - 1/16/2018

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