By complete accident I captured a plane crossing in front of our sun. I was able to figure out exactly which flight it was and got connected with the pilot, who was thrilled.

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I'm 17 years old and just finished building this 14.7 f/2.89 Newtonian reflector telescope. Despite its stubby size it collects roughly 2500 times more light than the human eye and is bigger than the scope at my local observatory.

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I just finished building this 17.5” telescope with a vintage mirror from the 1980s!

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Curiosity after more than 7 years on Mars

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The clearest image of Mars ever taken!

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On Tuesday night I captured my clearest image of the moon *ever* by blending over 100,000 images, captured with a telescope in pristine conditions. Make sure you zoom in to properly experience it. [OC]

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I took nearly 50,000 images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of Tuesday's moon. Uncompressed image linked in the comments. [OC]

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My newest and biggest homemade telescope, a 24” Dobsonian. I plan to try to observe the dwarf planet Makemake with it.

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After freezing my balls off in my backyard fixing failure after failure, this is one years worth of progress in a hobby that means the world to me.

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That's not camera noise- it's tens of thousands of stars. My image of the Snake Nebula, one of the most star dense regions in the sky, zoom in to see them all! [OC]

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The speed of light between Earth and Moon in real time

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I teamed up with a fellow redditor to try and make the best moon shot we could. Here is the result!

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I rented a plane for a great view of the launch of NASA’s newest Mars rover last month

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The pulse of the gas thrusters on SpaceX's Falcon 9, as the rocket's boost stage guides it back to Earth

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A recent picture I shot, using a backyard solar telescope, reveals the twisted detail of the Sun’s magnetic field. [OC]

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One year ago I shared my highest resolution picture of our moon. Last night I created an improved version, combining 140,000 pictures. 400 megapixel full resolution linked in the comments. [OC]

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The Pillars of Creation: My image compared to Hubble's

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The Needle Galaxy is nearly 50 million light-years away. I used 11 hours of exposure time to capture it from my backyard.

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My second attempt at painting a supermassive black hole

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SpaceX's Crew Dragon have successfully docked into the International Space Station!

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We see a lot of Mars lately, so here’s the surface of Venus from Venera 14 of the USSR

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I photographed the International Space Station crossing the full moon Thursday evening during a transit window which lasted a mere 0.58 seconds

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For the past three years, I've been writing software to process this image of the 2017 solar eclipse, here is the first result from my code!

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And just like that, a space race is born.

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Right now Mars is closer and brighter than it’s been since 2003. It’s so bright it’s casting a reflection on the ocean as it rises. Took this two nights ago in Rhode Island

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Probably my luckiest shot ever, I captured a shot of the ISS right on the terminator of a slim crescent moon. [OC]

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Shockwave On the Sun Following a Solar Flare

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Last night I captured a rare event, the ISS crossing the surface of the moon. This is a close crop of my shot, check out the full size linked in the comments. [OC]

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Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti Wears 'Star Trek' Uniform in Space

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Picture taken on the surface of an asteroid

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This battery charger spent almost nineteen years on the P6 truss segment of the ISS, making it (to my knowledge) the longest flown piece of hardware ever returned from space. Each colored flag points to a meteoroid or orbital debris strike we found on inspection.

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Katherine Johnson a NASA Legend

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I took a photograph of Uranus and five of its moons

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1 vs 4000: I couldn't afford a Telescope or an expensive Star Tracker, so I took almost 4000 exposures of Orion Nebula over 3 nights with just an entry level camera from a fairly light polluted city in central India. Merged them together using a technique called 'Stacking' and this is the result[OC]

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I combined my highest resolution moon shot with my highest resolution sun shot to make this composition. Zoom in, it's nearly 8k resolution! [OC]

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Mars Perseverance Rover captured this image.

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1 vs 3000: I couldn't afford a Telescope or a Tracker, so I spent 3 nights taking over 3000 Exposures of the Andromeda Galaxy using just an entry-level camera from a fairly light polluted city in Central India. Merged them together using a technique called Stacking, and this is the result[OC]

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Jupiter and its moons over the city's roofs

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I took a photo of every planet in our solar system and adjusted their size to show how huge our Sun is. Zoom in to see how tiny Earth is in comparison. [OC]

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Stunning new photo of Jupiter by Nasa's Juno spacecraft

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Curiosity captured some high altitude clouds in Martian atmosphere.

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9 Powerful Merlin Engines

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My finished sleeve inspired by Carl Sagan and The Cosmos.

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I pointed my telescope at the Phoenix Nebula for almost 12 hours to capture this.

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My best shot of Saturn so far, taken with an 8 telescope from my backyard in Sacramento. [OC]

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I developed a unique method for processing images of the Sun for extreme detail and clarity. This photo was shot on my backyard solar telescope. [OC]

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Home Telescope vs. The Hubble Space Telescope. This is the Pillars of Creation.

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This is my 33 hour exposure of the Dolphin Nebula that ended up getting me shortlisted as the Astronomy Photographer of the Year! [OC]

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Tuesday morning Mars was temporarily hidden by the moon. Here is my shot, captured right as Mars emerged from the dark side. [OC]

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Astronaut Anna Fisher kisses her daughter Kristin after training in Houston for a spacewalk in 1985. Photo/NASA She became the first mother in space on November 8, 1984.

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I used over 24 hours of exposure of the night sky to reveal hundreds of galaxies, zoom in to see them all! [OC]

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The descent and landing of the falcon 9 booster after yesterday's launch

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ISS crossing in front of NEOWISE. Once-in-a-lifetime shot.

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Found this a while ago, what are your opinions?

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I used an amateur telescope to collect light from deep space for over 13 hours, revealing this beautiful pair of galaxies [OC]

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Long exposure photograph I captured of the recent SpaceX Starlink launch and its reflection along the shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Pillars of Creation are almost always shown in false color, so I decided to take a rare image of them in true color to showcase their real beauty [OC]

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I captured an 80 megapixel image of our moon Thursday night, and enhanced color to show more details. Zoom in to properly experience it! [OC]

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I often get asked if people can use my images as wallpapers for their phones. So here's a collection of space themed wallpapers cropped from images I have taken over the last few years [OC]

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Meteor leaves a smoke ring

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Hubble's shot of the Pillars of Creation versus one I took from my backyard in Sacramento last night [OC]

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Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev stuck in space during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

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All the planets aligned into one

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Our solar system in 2018, a composition from pictures i was able to take from my backyard

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A selection of photographs taken from my back garden in 2020

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They entered the ISS!

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This is my clearest picture of a third quarter Moon that required 74GB of data (composite)

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I used over 24 hours of exposure of the night sky to reveal hundreds of galaxies, zoom in to see them!

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Size of the moon compared to USA

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I photographed the International Space Station crossing this morning's full moon! The ISS orbits Earth at 17,500mph, and this transit lasted only 0.90 seconds.

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After 3 years of waiting for the right conditions, I was able to get this shot of the ISS crossing the face of the sun. [OC]

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I used two different scopes and over 50 hours of exposure to reveal hundreds of galaxies in a small region of the sky in true color [OC]

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8 of the surviving Apollo astronauts photographed at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner for the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. Photo by me.

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Photo I took of a Delta IV Heavy launch

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Jupiter and four of its moons.

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“The Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars”

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On Monday I created one of my highest resolution images ever, a 778 megapixel color image of the moon. Zoom in and check this one out. [OC]

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Here’s an illustration I made of the Space Shuttle

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Using less than an hour of data, I was able to make my best photo of the Andromeda Galaxy to date! [OC]

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Every object in the Solar System

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After 780 days in space, the U.S. Air Force's secret spaceplane has returned to Earth

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I made a 4k wallpaper consisting of my favorite astronomy images through the years

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Been processing loads of raw images from Perseverance. This one is among my favorites 😍

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My 18 Hour exposure photo of the Helix Nebula from my backyard

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Half-naked girls get thousands of upvotes, how many for our boy in blue?

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Triple-core thrust: Closeup photo I shot of Falcon Heavy’s fury

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One of my favorite photos I’ve shot of a SpaceX launch

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Falcon 9 closeup

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I created an ultra-detailed color image of the moon by combining around 100k photos. Check out the details on the surface. [OC]

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Wernher von Braun in his office

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I photographed myself looking at the Milky Way just before sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean.

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International Space Station On-Ramp -- Antares launches NG-11 from Virginia on April 17, 2019, seen in a photo I've been trying to capture for four years.

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Space Debris orbiting Earth

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Mars casts a warm reflection on the surface of the ocean during an opposition in which the red planet was closest to Earth since 2003.

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I pointed my telescope at the Whirlpool Galaxy for 6 hours and got this picture of it

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Took my personal best shot of Mars this week with a backyard telescope, after waiting 2 years for the perfect celestial alignment. [OC]

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I created a long-exposure composite of last week's Atlas V launch and star trails above an abandoned sailboat.

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My 13 hour exposure of the Tarantula Nebula from my backyard

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Sunset on Mars by the Mars Curiosity Rover

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Closeup photograph I shot of yesterday’s Antares rocket launch delivering cargo to the International Space Station

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I took my favorite picture of the moon ever by combining 200k photos [OC]

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“Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-looking Iron Meteorite”

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Jupiter has rings too! Jupiter in infrared

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I downloaded data from NASA's solar observatory in space- this is my result after processing the data like it was my own image. [OC]

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My partner, lit by drone, under the stars in Ireland

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I stayed up til 4am last night to try and capture my best image of Saturn. This is my best effort after around 4 hours and shooting hundreds of thousands of shots. [OC]

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I captured a 360° Milkyway panorama last night. The full image is over 600 megapixels [OC]

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Betelgeuse from the backyard with a tilt shift effect [OC]

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Yesterday morning I captured one of my favorite pictures ever, the international space station caught perfectly against the terminator of a barely illuminated crescent moon. Full pic in the comments. [OC]

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NASA's Deep Space mission

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I captured a high resolution photo of the true colors of the moon Wednesday evening. This is what you would see if your eyes were much more sensitive to color. [OC]

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The Sun photographed from the same spot, at the same hour, on different days throughout the year

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The darkest place I've ever been - Milford Sound, New Zealand [OC]

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The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber temporarily crosses paths with the moon during a rare appearance at the Melbourne Air and Space Show.

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I still have a ways to go but I wanted to share my progress after all the support I recieved over my first photo.

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1969, 2011 and 2020: same pad, same flag. Happy 4th of July!

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The Strawberry Moon last night in Powhatan, Louisiana

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Using over 1.5TB of data from two telescopes, I created a 110 megapixel image of the first full moon of fall. [OC]

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Picture of the ISS from last night. Taken from my backyard.

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Dragon departing from the ISS

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Clearest Picture of mercury ever taken

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Most Milky Way images I see on here are taken with a wide angle lens. I took a different approach, and used a telephoto lens to get extreme details on our Galaxy and the foreground alike!

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I just finished a Space-Painting

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I drove 1,400 miles (2,250 km) to put a camera 1,500 feet (466m) from SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. It was worth it.

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20 years ago Hubble's Pillars of Creation image gave me an obsession with space. Now after 2 years of learning this hobby I can properly capture them myself. Here's my latest shot taken from my backyard. [OC]

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Last summer, I took this photo of the partial lunar eclipse. This year, I was delighted to find out it came runner up in the moon category of the IIAPY 2020 competition - one of the biggest astrophotography competitions in the world!

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As requested, here is the full uncropped 140 megapixel picture of the ISS transit I captured on Friday. Zoom in to the surface to see what makes this image so special! [OC]

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I took this from my backyard!

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I took a picture of Jupiter and its moons rising over the mountain forest

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I started using a telephoto lens for my Milky Way landscape shots to capture extreme detail of our galaxy, this is my favorite shot to date!

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My latest shot of the moon in 81 megapixels. [OC]

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Hubble scientists have released the most detailed picture of the universe to date, containing 265,000 galaxies. [Link to high-res picture in comments]

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I travelled 300 kilometres away from my heavily light polluted city to capture this image of The Andromeda Galaxy [OC]

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One year ago!

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This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away; the Cassini spacecraft spots a pale blue dot beneath Saturn's rings.

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The clearest image of Venus!

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I used two telescopes to capture this image of the first quarter moon last night [OC]

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A dramatic, closeup look at Thursday’s Atlas V rocket launch — photo captured with a sound-triggered camera I placed 500 feet from the rocket.

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This past Friday was the last time a full moon will occur on Friday the 13th until 2049! Here's a spooky shot I got of it over a swamp.

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I extracted the color data from 150k images of the moon so you can see where impacts paint the moon with different minerals. Wallpaper version and animation linked in the comments [OC]

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Video captured of Jupiter, Io and Europa during Cassini's flyby.

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Holding pieces of the moon and mars at the same time

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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, captured with my home telescope across three nights.

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Stacked progression image I captured of the launch and explosive landing of SpaceX's Starship SN9 from South Texas!

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Long exposure photo of a Falcon 9 rocket launch and its reflection; the symmetry makes this my favorite image I've shot to date!

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Venus and the Earth doing cosmic ballet!!!

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Proud of my latest tattoo. Voyager has always been my favorite spacecraft!

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The close-up of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope shows how many stars there really are.

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To mark its 29th anniversary, Hubble took an incredible picture of the Crab Nebula!

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