Milky Way over a Turquoise Wonderland. Credits: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava.1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
The end of an era. The very last image transmitted by Opportunity. The rover explored the Martian terrain for almost 15 years, far outlasting her planned 90-day mission.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ 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.5mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
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.1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Rugged Mars has taken big bites out of the Curiosity rover's wheels. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech11mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
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.8mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The James Webb Space Telescope took this wide view of Uranus featuring six of its 27 known moons.5mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA has now confirmed the existence of 5,602 exoplanets in 4,166 different planetary systems.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
ESA latest weather satellite, the Meteosat Third Generation Imager, revealed one of the most detailed pictures of Earth.1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA's Perseverance rover just snapped the clearest and up-close view of its Mars companion Ingenuity. Ingenuity completed its 50th flight on April 13, 20231yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Ton 618 is one of the largest black holes ever discovered. The size difference between them is almost unbelievable. Ton 618 is 27,000x larger than Sgr A* in terms of diameter, and 15,000x more massive.6d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Bruce McCandless Furthest Space Walk Using a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). Credit: NASA1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Extraordinary footage of a comet colliding with a planet for the first time. In 1994, pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, creating massive dark scars and superheated plumes. Had it hit Earth, it could have caused a global disaster like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.4d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA released new moon images revealing enormous crater deeper than the Grand Canyon in the lunar South Pole. Credit: NASA8mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Happy Earth Day! Here's a stunning image of our home, 36,000 km away from space.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft viewed Saturn’s outer B ring at a level of detail twice as high as it had ever been observed before.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
As of right now, the most famous comet in history, Halley’s Comet, is now past aphelion — its furthest point from the Sun — and has begun falling back towards the inner Solar System. It will make its next apparition in July 2061.5mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
New Hubble image reveals intergalactic bridge between two merging Galaxies8mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
New evidence suggests a Neptune-sized Planet 9 in our solar system's outskirts. Researchers argue that small bodies beyond Neptune cluster due to Planet 9's gravitational pull. Unlike evenly spread asteroids, these bodies form clumps, hinting at a larger object herding them.4d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Cassini-Huygens probe took these images of Saturn's moon Titan at four different altitudes as it descended to the surface. The probe not only survived the descent and landing, but continued to transmit data for more than an hour on the frigid surface of Titan, until its batteries were drained.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes 1st-of-its-kind observation within a coronal mass ejection.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Four giants twirl around their star in a slow dance over eight years of observation. Each moving dot is a gas giant planet more massive than Jupiter; the innermost planet takes 40 years to orbit its star, and the furthest takes 400 years.6mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI.1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Aurora Over Arctic Henge. The peaks of iconic Arctic Henge in Raufarhofn in northern Iceland were already aligned with the stars: some are lined up toward the exact north from one side and toward exact south from the other Credit: Cari Letelier1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
This Hubble image contains nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The solar system is thought to contain three regions: 1) Inner solar system — includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the Asteroid Belt. 2) Outer solar system — includes the four gas giant planets. 3) Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud — includes any objects beyond Neptune.6mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The image was created by shots photographer Jon Carmichael took while flying at 39,000 feet on a Southwest flight from Portland, Oregon, to St. Louis. Credit: Jon Carmichael1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Over 800 terrestrial exoplanets visualized and arranged according to their equilibrium temperature and size.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The brightest gamma-ray burst in history was caused by the collapse of a massive star, GRB 221009A.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
10 years ago Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and captured this image of the ringed-planet eclipsing the Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.10mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Stunning Hubble image captures NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy 130M light-years away. HD 101274 star shines brightly as it lies only about 1530 light-years from Earth.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
ESA’s Mars Express recently looped around Mars for the 25 000th time – and the orbiter has captured yet another spectacular view of the Red Planet to mark the occasion.2mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Optical and radio telescopes captured a spiral and elliptical galaxy merging 13 million light years away. At their core lies a supermassive black hole with the mass of 55 million suns.6d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Nasa’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April 23. The spacecraft will test a new way of navigating our solar system by using the propulsive power of sunlight.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Photograph taken during the Perseid Meteor Shower from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA10mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted Saturn’s moon Enceladus spraying out a huge plume of water vapour, far bigger than any previously seen there. This enormous cloud might contain the chemical ingredients of life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Space shuttle Endeavour atop its Boeing 747, flying over Mojave desert to NASA Kennedy Space Center in December 2008.8mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Great Orion Nebula above a Mountain in Switzerland Credit: MIKE WONG PHOTOGRAPHY1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
James Webb Space Telescope measured starlight around the universe's oldest black holes for the first time. In 120 hours, it observed six quasars, each about 13 billion years old, outshining their host galaxies. Using JWST's sharpness, the team distinguished quasar light from surrounding stars.1d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416. . The resulting panchromatic image combines visible and infrared light to assemble one of the most comprehensive views of the universe ever taken.7mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Parker Solar Probe flew through an eruption from the Sun, and saw it “vacuuming up” space dust left over from the formation of the solar system.8mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
In 1979, Voyager 1 made one of its most significant discoveries: a volcanic plume erupting over Jupiter’s moon Io. Captured in a long-exposure photo, this marked the first volcanic eruption ever detected beyond Earth.5d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this image of an iron-nickel meteorite nicknamed Cacao on the 3,725th Martian sol of the mission.3d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Chang'e 5 test vehicle captured this beautiful view of Earth over the far side of the Moon on October 28, 2014.2wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Pioneer 11 returned the first pictures of the polar regions of Jupiter! It launched in 1973.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Cat's Eye Nebula, the faint outer halo is over 5 light-years across.1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Van Gogh's Starry Night with the first image taken from the James Webb Telescope1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Comet Nishimura’s orbit around the sun takes about 435 years. That means that the last time Comet Nishimura flew by Earth was in 1588. Credit: Sebastian Voltmer8mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Ingenuity’s mission ended after the helicopter experienced a hard landing on its last flight, significantly damaging its rotor blades. Image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
On this day in 1960, the first television picture of earth from space was taken.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Very Long Baseline Array radio telescopes, spotted the signal of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from 11.5 billion miles (18.5 billion kilometers) away1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Andromeda Galaxy over El Capitan - Yosemite National Park. Credit: Rick Whitacre1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn and its moon Mimas from around 576,000 miles (927,000 km) away as it zoomed through Saturn's system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech10mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
142 years ago today, a solar eclipse concided with the perihelion of a Kreutz comet and this amazing photograph was taken.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Using the CIVA camera on Rosetta’s Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a ‘selfie’ at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from the surface of the comet.3wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Molten Ring: A Rare and Breathtaking Einstein Ring Captured by Hubble Space Telescope. Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Dwarf planet Pluto remained a fuzzy dot until NASA's New Horizons spacecraft brought it into focus during a close flyby in 2015. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto.5mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Sand dunes on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover reveal quite amazing patterns.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
This is a spectacular example of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon which occurs when a massive celestial object such as a galaxy cluster deforms spacetime and causes the path of light from more distant galaxies to be deflected, almost as if a monumental lens was redirecting it.5mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Barnard 68 (B68) is a dark globule within the Milky Way. These molecular clouds, known to be some of the coldest objects in the Universe (around 10 K or -263 °C), play a crucial role as the birthplaces of stars and planets. Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO.1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Phobos Over Mars: A Close Encounter Captured by the ESA’s Mars Express, this stunning image showcases Phobos, the larger and innermost of Mars’s two moons, passing over the Martian surface.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Dragon arc: a single strongly-lensed high-redshift galaxy behind the Abell 370 cluster at redshift of 0.725 when the Universe was half of its current age. A research group identified 46 microlensed stars in it.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a unique planetary system around a nearby star, featuring six planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. These planets orbit in rhythmic harmony, suggesting the system has remained undisturbed since its formation billions of years ago.5d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Korolev crater, 82km wide, lies in Mars' northern lowlands near Olympia Undae. Remarkably preserved, it holds a perennial 1.8km thick ice. This image was captured by ESA’s Mars Express.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Beneath the icy shell of Enceladus lies a large subsurface ocean that sprays particles through fissures in the frozen surface into space. The icy water particles produce Saturn's E ring, which extends about 120,000 km to about 420,000 km above Saturn's equator.6mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Zwicky 18 is an irregular dwarf galaxy smaller than our own, located 59 million light-years away. Two bursts of star formation lie at its heart, surrounded by wispy bubbles of gas formed by winds and radiation from hot, young stars within.2mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
A Fast Radio Burst (FRB) is a fleeting blast of energy that can - for a few milliseconds - outshine an entire galaxy. This FRB is particularly weird because it erupted halfway across the Universe, making it the farthest and most powerful one detected to date.2mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Van Gogh's starry night with the first image taken from the James Webb Space Telescope.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Dusty Mars Rover Opportunity captures its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatic view across Endeavour Crater. Taken on the 2,888th Martian sol, the image showcases a crater spanning 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter—an area roughly equivalent to the size of Seattle.4d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47. Much of this material was shot out from those stars as they repeatedly ingest and eject the gas and dust that immediately surround them over thousands of years2wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Death Star? No, this is Saturn’s moon Mimas taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft! May the 4th be with you!1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
New image from the James Webb Space Telescope showing NGC 6440. The globular cluster holds hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that are on average about one light-year apart, but they can be as close together as the size of our Solar System3wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
This is what Saturn looks like in its natural colors. The rings swirling around Saturn consist of chunks of ice and dust. Saturn itself is composed of ammonia ice and methane gas. The small dark spot on Saturn is the shadow of its moon Enceladus.2d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Earliest Close-Ups of the Planets Compared to Today's Best Shots. Left: Pioneer 10's view of Jupiter in March 1973. Right: Webb Telescope’s view of Jupiter in July 2022.6mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
These are the last series of images Cassini took at Enceladus before it met its fiery finale in 2017 when the spacecraft dove into Saturn after more than a decade in its orbit.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA’s Juno mission marked 50 orbits by showcasing its best images of Jupiter and its moons.2d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Relativity's Terran 1 Rocket is mostly 3D-printed. It burns a cryogenic rocket fuel composed of liquid methane and liquid oxygen. In this close-up of a Terran 1 launch, icy chunks fall through the stunning frame as intense blue exhaust streams from its nine Aeon 1 engines. Credit: Relativity1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Containing an incredible half-million stars, this 8-billion-year-old cosmic bauble is one of the largest and brightest globular clusters ever discovered. Credits: ESA/Hubble1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
NASA's Curiosity Captures Martian Morning. The rover's three antennas and nuclear power source are visible. Trailing behind Curiosity are rover tracks, and beyond those are Marker Band Valley, a winding region where the rover discovered unexpected signs of an ancient lake.6mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft captured this amazing view of Venus. Now, a new study based on data from BepiColombo shows how carbon and oxygen are escaping Venus’ atmosphere into space. Scientists made this discovery while studying a previously unexplored region of Venus’ magnetosphere.3d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
New Hubble image of a section of Messier 67. M67 is an open star cluster, which means that its over 500 stars are loosely grouped together by their mutual gravity. This is one of the oldest known open clusters at approximately 4 billion years of age - about the same as our Sun.2mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Sunburst Arc multiple-lensed galaxy showing extreme gravitational lensing.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars, this image is the first photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars. It was taken on July 20, 1976.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Meteor over Eleven Mile State Park, Colorado. Credit: Lars Leber Photography1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
This side-by-side comparison of galaxy cluster MACS0416 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in optical light (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared light (right)4d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Larger than both Mercury and Pluto and only a third smaller than Mars, Ganymede has a diameter of 3,273 miles/5,268 kilometers. It’s the largest moon and the ninth-largest object in the Solar System.6mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Stars slingshot around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. This sequence of infrared images was taken across four months in 2021 by the Very Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile. It’s the clearest view astronomers have ever captured of the region around Sagittarius A*. Credit: ESO/VLTI1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Not quite the Millennium Falcon, Copernicus Sentinel 2 spotted Japan’s newest island growing.2wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Pascal Fouquet won first place in the Sony World Photography Awards with image of SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the X-37B spaceplane into orbit silhouetted by the moon.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Himalayas and Mount Everest in Nepal taken from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Jupiter Great Red Spot images shows the storm shrinking from 1995 to 2014. The giant storm was visible from the 1800s. Credits: NASA, ESA1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
NICER’s primary mission is to determine the size of dense remains neutron stars — some of which we see as pulsars — to a precision of 5%. These measurements will finally allow physicists to solve the mystery of what form of matter exists in their incredibly compressed cores1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s carbon fiber blades can be seen in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.10mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The HD1 galaxy is one of the most distant galaxies ever discovered, estimated to be about 13.5 billion light-years away from Earth. This immense distance means that we are observing HD1 as it was shortly after the Big Bang.5d ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The loneliest Galaxy in space. NGC 6503 has found itself in a isolated position, at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void, which is a huge stretch of space that is at least 150 million light-years across. It seems completely empty of stars or galaxies. Credit: NASA, ESA9mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
In 2014, Chile's ALMA observatory captured a star 450 light-years away surrounded by rings of material from its birth. Astronomers found evidence of planet formation within these rings, hinting at the birth of a new solar system, much like our own.1wk ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Aurora borealis over Greenland. In this view from the isolated settlement a lone iceberg is illuminated by shore lights as it drifts across the icy sea. Credit: Dennis Lehtonen6mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Clouds drift over the dome-covered seismometer, known as SEIS on Mars. Five years ago today, the InSight lander detected its first likely marsquake on its 128th Martian day on the planet.1mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Before its power was depleted, Odysseus completed a fitting farewell transmission. Received today, this image from February 22nd showcases the crescent Earth in the backdrop, a subtle reminder of humanity’s presence in the universe.3mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Milky Way above La Palma Observatory in the Canary Islands of Spain. Credit: Marcin Rosadzinski10mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
Astronomers have revealed that a brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although it is responsible for high levels of radiation and powerful jets, this giant black hole is not as influential as many of its counterparts in other galaxies.2mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features Herbig-Haro 211, a bipolar jet travelling through interstellar space at supersonic speeds.9mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
New images from Hubble Tracks Jupiter's Stormy Weather, which includes cyclones, anticyclones, wind shear, and the largest storm in the solar system, the Great Red Spot. Jupiter has no solid surface and is perpetually covered with largely ammonia ice-crystal clouds that are only about 30 miles2mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn
James Webb Space Telescope has snapped the clearest images yet of the dusty disk around the young star Fomalhaut. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA.1yr ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
A new Webb study of two protostars, so young that they have not yet formed planets, has found a variety of molecules ranging from relatively simple ones like methane to complex compounds like acetic acid. These molecules constitute key ingredients for worlds that might one day host life2mo ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/spaceporn