Mission Control: 1969 vs launch control 2023 Apollo vs Artemis, a more fair comparison.1yr ⋅ saberline152 ⋅ r/space
A collage created from (100) of our planetary nebulae all are presented north up and at apparent size relative to one another.7yr ⋅ gDisasters ⋅ r/space
This is a 53 shot, 500MP image I took recently of the Milky Way over Harvey Dam in Western Australia.7yr ⋅ inefekt ⋅ r/space
I spent the last 2 weeks shooting Jupiter every night to attempt to learn to capture the planet as detailed as possible. On Tuesday I captured my best shot so far, and the first time I've been able to resolve details on one of Jupiter's moons.1yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
A picture of the golden record. possibly the only thing, along with voyager 1, that will outlast any human creation, and possibly the earth itself...3yr ⋅ Weeb_5430 ⋅ r/space
Bioluminescence glowing under the Milky Way from a huge Malibu sea cave last night. Bucket list shot doesn't start to describe it!7yr ⋅ jackfusco ⋅ r/space
A 15 second exposure of tonight's crescent moon reveals Earthshine: light reflecting from Earth to the dark side of the moon7yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
I hiked to a frozen lake in Rocky Mountain National Park and captured a detailed panorama of the winter Milky Way showing all of its nebulae5yr ⋅ aryeh95 ⋅ r/space
Closeup photograph I shot of Atlas V’s RD-180 engine and four AJ-60A solid rocket motors powering GOES-S to orbit Thursday afternoon.6yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
I just inherited this moon globe from my late Grandmother. The far side has a blank area as it was still unknown when the globe was made.7yr ⋅ jb2386 ⋅ r/space
Is it possible to capture the entire plane of our galaxy in a single image? Yes, but not in one exposure: it took some planning to do it in two. The top and the bottom part of this image were taken six months apart and there you have it, the complete plane5yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/space
I photographed my friend wearing a Falcon Heavy t-shirt as he looked at the Falcon Heavy rocket standing vertical for the very first time.6yr ⋅ marcuscotephoto ⋅ r/space
This is a photo of the Moon I took and overlayed with the Apollo landing sites, since not many people know which places we've been when looking up at it!1yr ⋅ _Solon ⋅ r/space
60 years ago, on April 12th, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man ever launched in space.3yr ⋅ Astrowolf_13 ⋅ r/space
My gingerbread this year. Wishing the James Webb Space Telescope a safe journey!2yr ⋅ goodwater42 ⋅ r/space
SpaceX landing is even more impressive when you see the booster next to humans.7yr ⋅ Vatonee ⋅ r/space
In celebration of the apollo moon landing i made this comic. Im only 16 and this is the first comic i ever made so please go easy on me with the critisism but i would like to hear what you think.5yr ⋅ Bjorn_DB ⋅ r/space
My first time using a star tracker under the dark skies of Mt Rainier National Park1yr ⋅ erantsingularity ⋅ r/space
A picture of every extraterrestrial body that robots from mankind have landed on and photographed8yr ⋅ malgoya ⋅ r/space
I captured over 1TB of data to create this 500 megapixel panorama of our Milky Way2yr ⋅ SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS ⋅ r/space
One of my favourite photos from Apollo 17, Harrison Schmitt with the lunar rover at Shorty Crater6yr ⋅ mmmmmBetty ⋅ r/space
My friend Arne stood on this hill so I could get a shot of him silhouetted against the core of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. [details in comments]1yr ⋅ peeweekid ⋅ r/space
NASA's Artemis 1 Launch Will Be Livestreamed in 4k 360°! You'll Have The Opportunity to Watch The Return to the Moon in VR!1yr ⋅ Infinite-Aviation ⋅ r/space
[OC] Wore my Artemis shirt to work... just for the launch to get scrubbed.1yr ⋅ _wheresMySuperSuit ⋅ r/space
Crescent sunrise: I lined up Thursday’s solar eclipse with the Mackinac Bridge in northern Michigan.3yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
For our 10 years wedding anniversary, my wife got me my first telescope!3mo ⋅ OnTheList-YouTube ⋅ r/space
My sound triggered camera survived the wrath of a Delta IV rocket launch from ~50 yards away.8yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
I took an 80 megapixel image of the moon using a telescope and thousands of images, and enhanced color and contrast to see it in incredible detail. Zoom in to see the how the craters look up close!2yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
The Aurora Tree: a visual coincidence between the dark branches of a nearby tree and bright glow of a distant aurora5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
Last night I sat in a river for two hours photographing the Milky Way, while the banks exploded with fireflies competing with starlight for attention. Cured everything that ailed me.1yr ⋅ MrJackDog ⋅ r/space
Extremely rare pink auroras temporarily emerged above Norway after a strong solar storm caused a small crack in the Earth's magnetosphere, enabling solar wind to penetrate below 62 miles into Earth's nitrogen-riched atmosphere. credit: Frank Meissner1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
I don't see enough love for protoplanetary disks. The fact that we can see them in this resolution is just mind-blowing to me.8mo ⋅ ArleiG ⋅ r/space
I made a 225 megapixel shot of this week's SuperMoon from 150k stacked images. Uncompressed version linked in the comments [OC]5yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
Andromeda Galaxy, almost no edit. The amount of stars is incredible... [OC]2mo ⋅ berkcanbelen ⋅ r/space
I used two telescopes and two cameras operating at high speeds to capture the international space station crossing over an active region of the sun. If you zoom in you can even see the new solar arrays they installed yesterday! [OC]3yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
NASA released new moon images revealing enormous crater deeper than the Grand Canyon in the lunar South Pole. Credit: NASA7mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
I created a 400 megapixel moonstrosity out of a million images. Full size/uncompressed files in comments. You'll want to zoom in on this one! [OC]5yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I placed a sound-activated camera at the launch pad to create a dramatic GIF closeup of Falcon 9 during liftoff.6yr ⋅ marcuscotephoto ⋅ r/space
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter catches Curiosity Rover parachute landing... August 20126yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/space
The Moon's shadow is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station2wk ⋅ Aeromarine_eng ⋅ r/space
It's nothing special but here is my completely unedited photo of the comet1yr ⋅ backyardspace ⋅ r/space
27 years ago today, Voyager 1 took its last photos ever. Turning its cameras inward toward the sun, it captured the only portrait of our solar system. Including the famous Pale Blue Dot.7yr ⋅ mr_majorly ⋅ r/space
Hastily thrown together comparison of the Hubble and JWST images of the Southern Ring Nebula1yr ⋅ TheRealKuni ⋅ r/space
Webb Telescope has taken this image of Wolf-Rayet 140 -- a star around 5,600 light-years away. The star is surrounded by what appear to be concentric rings of light radiating outward. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Judy Schmidt,1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, reaches a maximum distance from the Challenger before reversing direction his manned maneuvering unit (MMU) and returning to the Challenger6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/space
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, on the International Space Station, wearing a Star Trek shirt and giving the Vulcan salutation5yr ⋅ SnuSnu420 ⋅ r/space
I used a long exposure to photograph myself watching the ISS pass across the night sky.7yr ⋅ marcuscotephoto ⋅ r/space
Melbourne, Australia at night, from the International Space Station. More details in comments.11mo ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
I captured the Tiangong space station transiting in front of the Moon last night. This space station is one third the size of the International Space Station. Zoom in to see the details!1yr ⋅ selenophile_photo ⋅ r/space
In 2003 Adam Nieman created this image, illustrating the volume of the world’s oceans and atmosphere (if the air were all at sea-level density) by rendering them as spheres sitting next to the Earth instead of spread out over its surface5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
The Fuel Bleed valve (and it’s associated plumbing schematics) that caused today’s SLS scrub. Puts the complexity into perspective.1yr ⋅ AntiTanked ⋅ r/space
Watching the SpaceX Falcon9 launch with our boxer puppy, Kona. Excited to have this photo featured as yesterdays NASA APOD6yr ⋅ jackfusco ⋅ r/space
An extreme closeup of the Sun I shot this week with a backyard solar telescope reveals the complex nature of the solar chromosphere [OC]3yr ⋅ TheVastReaches ⋅ r/space
During quarantine I've been working on making a telescope with a mirror I ground by hand!4yr ⋅ lognich04 ⋅ r/space
Night sky over Yosemite. There were so many stars that I struggled to find constellations!7yr ⋅ chemistographer ⋅ r/space
The world's largest currently flying rocket -- ULA's Delta IV Heavy -- launched a classified payload for the NRO a year ago today, resulting in one of my favorite launch photos I've ever taken7yr ⋅ johnkphotos ⋅ r/space
I captured this star trail composite from the ISS. More details in comments.5mo ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
This close view of Jupiter was captured by Juno. Credit: NASA , JPL ,Caltech , SwRI, MSSS , Kevin M Gill , Michael Galanin1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
I took one tracked and one untracked exposure of the Milky Way rising over Mt. Sneffels in Colorado and combined them to bring out an extreme amount of detail5yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
I hiked over 15 miles to get this shot of Comet Neowise setting in one of the most iconic locations in the Adirondacks, NY4yr ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
You don’t need equipment to observe, just a clear sky and just a little knowledge on where to look. A chocolate sundae helps too.1yr ⋅ rtphokie ⋅ r/space
This is why we think there's a Black Hole in middle of our galaxy: these stars seem to be orbiting around nothing.7yr ⋅ Nobilitie ⋅ r/space
I pointed my telescope at the night sky to get this image of massive colliding galaxies 31 MILLION light years away1yr ⋅ taweryawer ⋅ r/space
Last night I captured a 144 megapixel composite image of our moon. This was captured using 8,000 photos, which my camera took in just 7 minutes. [OC]3yr ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I captured this photo of Saturn using a telescope in my backyard a few nights ago. The rings are noticeably more edge-on than when I last captured it in the fall.9mo ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
At Christmas this past year, my grandpa gave me this flight manual. So very cool.1yr ⋅ cephalosnorlax ⋅ r/space
This is 1 of 5 F-1 engines that lifted each Saturn V rocket off its launch pad and made it possible for Apollo to land on the moon during the 1960s and 70s. This is the heart of the engine, the thrust chamber. 2 of the engines were discovered in 2012 off Florida on an expedition by Jeff Bezos.6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/space
10 years ago today, I captured Venus crossing the face of the Sun. It won't happen again until 2117.2yr ⋅ star-signs ⋅ r/space
Thought I'd go oldschool this weekend. No stacking. No tracking. No traveling hundreds of kms. Just a single shot at the right location and right time of year in New Zealand.4yr ⋅ EkantTakePhotos ⋅ r/space
Moon and clouds composite made with my 4 telescope and smartphone1yr ⋅ InternationalBack472 ⋅ r/space
The Korolev cross, the pattern produced as the four boosters fall away from the Soyuz. It is named after Sergei Korolev, the most prominent Soviet space engineer.8yr ⋅ piponwa ⋅ r/space
I gave my best shot at capturing the Pillars of Creation from my own backyard! [OC]10mo ⋅ Jakicevich ⋅ r/space
I just found out that my friends don't even know all names of the planets let alone their position in the solar system. This made me real sad because I feel like this should be common knowledge (like knowing what continents we have and were they are). This is why I post this image, credit: NASA2yr ⋅ joosth3 ⋅ r/space
The differences between false color and true color images of the night sky and why we use them6yr ⋅ Idontlikecock ⋅ r/space
I was fortunate enough to capture the northern lights dancing overhead in Iceland!1mo ⋅ DomCraggoo ⋅ r/space
Just before sunrise at Pines Beach, New Zealand - fingers crossed for some long, clear nights this winter5yr ⋅ EkantTakePhotos ⋅ r/space
