Rugged Mars has taken big bites out of the Curiosity rover's wheels. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech10mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
A completely unprocessed image of our galaxy shot from an altitude of 14,000 feet in the Himalayas1yr ⋅ booega ⋅ r/space
This gif, created by Google product developer Clay Bavor, puts the 747 and SR-71 aircraft speeds into perspective compared to New Horizons spacecraft. 36,000 mph ~ 58,000 km/h was the speed reached at launch (Atlas V third stage cut off)5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
After nearly a month of bad weather, I finally managed to capture over 20 hours of exposure on the infamous Horsehead nebula located 1,500 light years away in the Constellation of Orion.4yr ⋅ Ethan_Roberts123 ⋅ r/space
Last night was the longest full moon of the year, in the sky for 15 hours and 33 minutes. I spent that time shooting over 100,000 images of it to bring you this highly detailed mosaic with more color and detail than visible with the naked eye. [OC]2yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I set a camera 1,000 feet away from SpaceX's first reused rocket and it captured this beautiful shot7yr ⋅ everydayastronaut ⋅ r/space
I pointed a backyard telescope at this small patch of sky and took pictures for 18 hours; framing three very different-looking galaxies into one view. [OC]3yr ⋅ TheVastReaches ⋅ r/space
JWST team has confirmed the launch went so well its estimated lifetime is now 20 years over 10 years!2yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/space
Last night my buddy was getting a long exposure shot of Venus just as a meteor streaked across the sky.4yr ⋅ GeorgieWashington ⋅ r/space
From Mount Tschirgant in the Alps, you can see not only nearby towns and distant Tyrolean peaks, but also, weather permitting, stars, nebulas, & the band of the Milky Way Galaxy. And if you climbed during the Perseids Meteor Shower, like photographer Nicholas Roemmelt did, also a marvel like this5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
It only takes about 3 hours to get from the east to west coast of New Zealand, but I still love to stop half way for the night and photograph the stars in Arthur's Pass5yr ⋅ EkantTakePhotos ⋅ r/space
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket (intentionally) blows up in the skies over Cape Canaveral during this morning’s successful abort test4yr ⋅ stratohornet ⋅ r/space
Loved the LEGO Saturn V displays I've seen. Haven't put it in the display case yet but think this turned out pretty great!4yr ⋅ ladalyn ⋅ r/space
I set up a sound-triggered camera roughly 900 feet away from the launch pad during this week's Falcon 9 rocket launch. (Marcus Cote/Space Coast Times)6yr ⋅ marcuscotephoto ⋅ r/space
Flower grown inside the International Space Station orbiting Earth January 20165yr ⋅ Aeromarine_eng ⋅ r/space
** We Captured Extremely Deep Wide Field image of M104 and it showed faint Tidal streams and Halo** (OC)3yr ⋅ mrdeepsky01 ⋅ r/space
I spent the night alone in the Okavango Delta with my gear and caught these cheetah cubs under the Milky Way!9mo ⋅ KushAstrophotography ⋅ r/space
I photographed Comet Neowise setting in one of the most iconic sights in Upstate NY! [OC]3yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 19781yr ⋅ Bojangly7 ⋅ r/space
Decided to try one of those long exposure shots that everyone else does for this morning’s launch6yr ⋅ AyyyyyyyyyyyyySuckIt ⋅ r/space
Fisheye photo I shot of the Atlas V / GOES-S launch from roughly 300ft away. My lens was destroyed, but the photo was worth it!6yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
Aldrin snapped this shot in of a teary-eyed Armstrong moments after he returned to the spacecraft and removed his helmet, 1969.5yr ⋅ ok-forgitaboutit ⋅ r/space
Radio astronomer here! I’ve had time recently on the MeerKAT telescope, and this was incidentally in my field of view recently! They’re both galaxies with relativistic jets shooting from supermassive black holes, millions of light years away...3yr ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/space
I've spent more than a year in space taking tens of thousands of photos, but one of my favorites is still the time I captured a shadow that looked like Godzilla... cast onto the Japanese module!1yr ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
Finally! A sunspot appeared this week - it's been a while. I stayed on target with it for 50 minutes and created this time-lapse of it.4yr ⋅ chucksastro ⋅ r/space
Closeup photograph I shot of Falcon 9's Merlin 1D engines during its 50th flight last week.6yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
The far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DISCOVR spacecraft's camera and the Earth - one million miles away6yr ⋅ green_flash ⋅ r/space
I Transported My Telescope and Drove One Hour to Capture this Image of the International Space Station 🛰️ Transiting in Front of the Full Wolf Moon 🐺🌕1yr ⋅ selenophile_photo ⋅ r/space
A couple days ago I was able to capture Jupiter and the Galilean Moons as they passed over a mountain.5yr ⋅ aatdalt ⋅ r/space
I photographed the Big Dipper sitting low over the foggy mountains in upstate NY. I even caught the famous double star, Mizar and Alcor! [OC]4yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
We ran an AMA with Astronaut Chris Hadfield to save Canada’s Space Program. We ended up with a new emblem. Enjoy!5yr ⋅ DontLetGoCanada ⋅ r/space
I traveled to a small island on the equator to get the best photo of our galaxy I could. After two weeks capturing photos, I’m thrilled to share my most detailed photo of the Milky Way I’ve ever done.9mo ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
50 years ago 8 year old me saved this front page from the newspaper. I was completely amazed by Apollo 11, and it still fascinates me to this day!5yr ⋅ BrassOrchidBlades ⋅ r/space
I took one tracked and one untracked exposure of the Milky Way and combined them to bring out an extreme amount of detail - Rocky Mountain National Park, CO6yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
The most stars I've ever captured in one image, this was taken by keeping my telescope pointed near the core of the milky way for over 10 hours. The sky is so crowded the stars practically overlap. Those dark voids are actually interstellar dust!2yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I just got this original printing of the July 21, 1969 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle at an estate sale for $18.5yr ⋅ anarchophysicist ⋅ r/space
I waded into the ocean to get a unique perspective of Tuesday's Atlas V launch of cargo for the International Space Station7yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
Just got a free telescope and this is my picture of the moon as best as I could. Happy New Years!1yr ⋅ UnderstandingOwn7934 ⋅ r/space
I took an 8k shot of the supermoon as it cut through the clouds. Try zooming in on the surface details. [OC]5yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I photographed Falcon Heavy passing through clouds that temporarily revealed more detail of its three 9-engine cores.6yr ⋅ marcuscotephoto ⋅ r/space
My best Milky Way picture yet. Towards the top in the center is the Andromeda galaxy, on a direct collision course with ours. I wonder if something there is looking back at us?3yr ⋅ aphexartist ⋅ r/space
I have been using a device called a star tracker which will follow the rotation of the Earth when aligned thus allowing me to capture extremely detailed images of the Milky Way. This is my latest tracked shot from Colorado. [OC]4yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
I kept my telescope pointed at Bode's Galaxy for 25 hours to create this picture. It was captured from my backyard. The pink areas in the galaxy represent nebulae - I used an H-Alpha filter to highlight them.4yr ⋅ chucksastro ⋅ r/space
A view I captured of the sun between ISS solar panels. More details in comments.1yr ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
My 45 hour exposure of the debris leftover from a star going supernova- maybe one day future astronomers will photograph Betelgeuse the same way [OC]4yr ⋅ Idontlikecock ⋅ r/space
That's a fair amount of tiles missing from the starship heatshield, guess it would make for a toasty reenter.5mo ⋅ AlmiranteSalsicha ⋅ r/space
Using only 85 minutes off data, I was able to make my best photo of the Triangulum Galaxy to date! [OC]3yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
Spectacular Hadley Rille panorama made from stitching together high resolution scans of Jim Irwin's images stored on apolloarchive.com. Used the Gimp to do this.1yr ⋅ Adeldor ⋅ r/space
NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the Space Shuttle Endeavour on top flies over California's Mojave Desert on its way back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec 10, 20083yr ⋅ Aeromarine_eng ⋅ r/space
A few weeks ago I shared with you my retro space art and everyone really enjoyed it, so I figured I'd share with you my Series 2 collection!5yr ⋅ frankreddit5 ⋅ r/space
During the total solar eclipse I could see solar prominences with my naked eyes. This shot shows an absolutely enormous one-- the tiny dot is Earth added for scale.1wk ⋅ theillini19 ⋅ r/space
I like drawing space pixel art so here's a methane lake on Titan using only 3 colors (320x200px)5yr ⋅ v78 ⋅ r/space
I stitched together 12 images of the Milky Way to create my most detailed photograph of our galaxy I have ever created5yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
Using a star tracker, I stitched together 20 images to create this 120 MP Milky Way pano as our galaxy rose high over Upstate NY3yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
The Engraved Hourglass Nebula - A young planetary nebula located about 8000 light years from Earth3yr ⋅ jamesrl07 ⋅ r/space
☄️ On 21 January a fireball meteor crashed to Earth causing a cascade of bright light to trail through the sky. This awesome image was captured by photographer Chris Small in Bude, Cornwall.4yr ⋅ Stocky99 ⋅ r/space
My 5th and best attempt photographing andromeda since starting the hobby 4 years ago6mo ⋅ Bantakiwi ⋅ r/space
I went for a hike and took some pictures of the stars - no backstory about staying alive in the elements for 5 years - this is just New Zealand's backyard2yr ⋅ EkantTakePhotos ⋅ r/space
First attempt at capturing the milky way. Managed to take this shot with just a dslr and a cheap tripod.5yr ⋅ JustDoIt85 ⋅ r/space
James Webb Space Telescope acquired this view of Saturn's largest moon Titan and the atmospheric haze around the moon. A. Pagan, W. M. Keck Observatory, NASA...1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
I ordered, aligned, and animated dozens of my lunar images to create a unique gif showing the dynamic character of our moon. [OC]5yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I merged my solar and lunar eclipse photo into this composite: a solunar eclipse!5yr ⋅ thejakenixon ⋅ r/space
I took this video of the International Space Station flying over my backyard1yr ⋅ J3RRYLIKESCHEESE ⋅ r/space
I used a special filter to isolate the nebulosity in this wide angle shot of the Milky Way. This is our galaxy like you may have never seen it before. [OC]4yr ⋅ TheVastReaches ⋅ r/space
2018 was easily my best year for photographing the Milky Way. This is an 8k compilation of my favorite images.5yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
NASA’s Curiosity rover spotted these weird-looking stick-like spikes of rock at Gale crater on Mars.1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Lucy launches from Florida; on its way to the Trojans aboard a ULA Atlas V Rocket | Composite Image [OC]2yr ⋅ wdd09 ⋅ r/space
This month's Strawberry Mineral Moon. I stacked dozens of images to reveal the invisible colors of the minerals that make up the moon.11mo ⋅ theillini19 ⋅ r/space
Last year I shot the Milky Way at 70mm and it took me 140 exposures to complete this image. I was about a 1/4 mile away from the lighthouse6yr ⋅ stevenjmagner ⋅ r/space
Using a device called a star tracker, I was able to take a picture of the Milky Way and corresponding landscape in Colorado to bring out extreme detail in both the stars and foreground alike!4yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
I shot an image of the Moon two nights ago and enhanced the natural colors and contrast to reveal the surface details. Here is the result. [OC]4yr ⋅ TheVastReaches ⋅ r/space
I used a 12” telescope to photograph a dying star in space. These incredible views are what lured me into this hobby.3mo ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
Closeup image I shot of the RD-180 engine and AJ-60A solid rocket booster powering last week's Atlas V launch6yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
This is an astronomy book from 1869. It has hand written notes and some cool drawings!4yr ⋅ Relytt_ ⋅ r/space
Long exposure photograph I took of this morning's Minotaur IV rocket launch--the first Minotaur launch from Cape Canaveral.7yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
Astronaut Scott Kelly adjusting to gravity after a year on the International Space Station.7yr ⋅ GallowBoob ⋅ r/space
With careful planning and a large telescope I photographed Jupiter and its moons rising over a barn1yr ⋅ MrJackDog ⋅ r/space
I photographed the full moon rising over the ocean through some clouds and atmospheric distortion, which rendered the moon a beautiful yellow-gold hue.6yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
I photographed the solar chromosphere for an hour and watched it come alive8mo ⋅ frozen_spectrum ⋅ r/space
I recently helped my father-in-law pick out a new telescope. Today, he said thanks by gifting me his collection of NASA mission patches he’s been collecting for over 40 years - every manned mission from Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. I’m speechless.2yr ⋅ StrandedonTatooine ⋅ r/space
