The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has released the first image of our supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, in polarized light3wk ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Japans first privately developed rocket explodes seconds after lift off1mo ⋅ mdruhulkuddus ⋅ r/spaceporn
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 19782yr ⋅ npjprods ⋅ r/spaceporn
The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of 25 km, Mount Everest is 'only' 8.8 km tall.1yr ⋅ joosth3 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Many people thought that in this photo Buzz Aldrin was looking straight to earth, but he was actually smiling at the camera.1yr ⋅ egi_berisha123 ⋅ r/spaceporn
To give an even bigger idea of how large Saturn's hexagon storm is (±25,000km across)1yr ⋅ superstof ⋅ r/spaceporn
If you wanna try wrapping your head around how many planets actually exist, I did the math, and it's unbelievable.2mo ⋅ Correct_Presence_936 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA’s Juno Gets a Close Look at Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io on Dec. 30, 20233mo ⋅ enknowledgepedia ⋅ r/spaceporn
Just shy of 11 years ago, I was on a flight from South Florida to Iowa when the Captain suggested we look out the window to see a bit of history in action: the final Shuttle launch. Photo credit to Lisa, who say next to me and had a nicer camera.1yr ⋅ kitty-committee ⋅ r/spaceporn
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)!1yr ⋅ Side_Bolt ⋅ r/spaceporn
It's Jupiter's lo, as seen by Juno spacecraft, taken just moments ago, as it flew just 900 miles above the moon's hypervolcanic surface.4mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The surface of the asteroid Ryugu taken by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-24yr ⋅ exoduscv ⋅ r/spaceporn
Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in the frame of this picture, 1969.2yr ⋅ changemymind00 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Korolev Crater on Mars, filled with over 2,000 cubic kilometers of water ice (image from ESA's Mars Express)1yr ⋅ EclipseEpidemic ⋅ r/spaceporn
The sun continues to have a huge coronal hole, 12 hours later.5mo ⋅ Concert-Alternative ⋅ r/spaceporn
I live in a Ukrainian city, lights are off because of war, beautiful view has opened2yr ⋅ dimden ⋅ r/spaceporn
This is the very first simulated image of a black hole, calculated using a 1960s punch card IBM 7040 computer and hand plotted by French astrophysicist Jean Pierre Luminet in 19781yr ⋅ subreddette ⋅ r/spaceporn
Titan landing / Surface. It's a shame many people don't know we landed on a moon of saturn.5mo ⋅ Lick_meh_ballz ⋅ r/spaceporn
The first direct image of another planetary system located about 300 light-years away around a star like our Sun.3mo ⋅ UsedExcuse8686 ⋅ r/spaceporn
This may be the last photo taken by the NASA Insight mission on the surface of Mars1yr ⋅ astrojaket ⋅ r/spaceporn
First ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star (Source: ESO)1yr ⋅ abdouhlili ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Chicxulub asteroid that impacted Earth 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs, projected against downtown Manhattan1yr ⋅ Brooklyn_University ⋅ r/spaceporn
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 ⋅ sheddingpanda ⋅ r/spaceporn
The most intense storm in our solar system (by sustained winds)5mo ⋅ Busy_Yesterday9455 ⋅ r/spaceporn
48 different colors of the moon, all photographed in a time span of 10 years2yr ⋅ redkoicarp ⋅ r/spaceporn
M87 with a 5000 light year long jet of plasma originating from its core.2mo ⋅ PrestigiousCurve4135 ⋅ r/spaceporn
I pointed my telescope at the moon and intentionally misaligned the RGB channels to create this stunning composite image.3yr ⋅ JimmyTheChicken1 ⋅ r/spaceporn
James Webb Telescope's fine guidance sensor provides us with first real test image1yr ⋅ Sam-Starxin ⋅ r/spaceporn
Not a black hole, but a molecular cloud (known as Barnard 68) which is a high concentration of dust and molecular gas that absorbs practically all the visible light emitted from background stars.1yr ⋅ Adeel314 ⋅ r/spaceporn
I still can’t believe we landed on the moon... absolutely incredible and I think this photo sums it up very well.1yr ⋅ musicman5013 ⋅ r/spaceporn
First meteorite from a 1-meter meteoroid that exploded over northern France last week, has found! (Credit: FRIPON/Vigie-Ciel)1yr ⋅ Busy_Yesterday9455 ⋅ r/spaceporn
my friend gave the prompt the observable universe in a bottle to an AI to make an image out of1yr ⋅ SadOwl616 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The “Face on Mars” captured by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter in 1976 (left) and Mars Global Surveyor in 2001 (right)1yr ⋅ Accurate_Habit1545 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Ever seen a sunset and a solar eclipse at the same time? Well, now you have.4yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/spaceporn
On January 31, 1961; Ham became the first chimp to be sent to the space. He came back to earth alive.1yr ⋅ EduardoVrd ⋅ r/spaceporn
Massive fail, Giant dying star collapses straight into black hole, The left image shows the star as it appeared in 2007, The right image shows the same region in 2015, with the star missing.2yr ⋅ egi_berisha123 ⋅ r/spaceporn
In 2019, biologist Eleanor Lutz combined five different data sets to produce this image of every known thing in our solar system with a diameter bigger than 10 kilometers.2yr ⋅ Aceeed ⋅ r/spaceporn
James Webb Space Telescope may have found the most distant starlight we have ever seen. The reddish blurry blob you see here is how this galaxy looked only 300 million years after the creation of the universe.1yr ⋅ joosth3 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky3yr ⋅ IrnBroski ⋅ r/spaceporn
Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the Solar System, as captured by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. The volcano is about 620 km across and 21 km tall.7mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Motion of solar system planets relative to Earth (i.e. geocentric orbits)1yr ⋅ Accurate_Habit1545 ⋅ r/spaceporn
I took this photo of the Milky Way by zooming out during a 30 second exposure1yr ⋅ Perryplatypus69 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Perseverance rover has dropped off its second sealed tube containing a rock sample1yr ⋅ enknowledgepedia ⋅ r/spaceporn
Surreal, absurd, outlandish, preposterous... But there it is. The entire earth clearly reflected off the side of a car.6yr ⋅ feeling_impossible ⋅ r/spaceporn
