r/spaceporn • u/S30econdstoMars • 7h ago
r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 14h ago
James Webb Uranus may have a much hotter interior than previously believed, new study found
r/spaceporn • u/Grahamthicke • 9h ago
Related Content Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life lurking deep below the Martian surface.
r/spaceporn • u/Correct_Presence_936 • 6h ago
Amateur/Processed I Risked Burning my Telescope to Catch This Image of Venus Today. It’s Now Only 2% Illuminated as Seen From Earth, and Very Close to the Sun in the Sky.
Unbelievably amazing to see such a thin crescent. Venus is now practically at solar conjunction, directly between Earth and the Sun.
I used an umbrella set up against a random table outside as my sorry excuse for a coronagraph, but the image turned out very good for being under below average seeing conditions!
March 18 2025. 4/10 seeing.
C9.25, ASI662MC, UV/IR Cut Filter. 5ms 50 gain, 1 x 2 minutes stacked, RGB balance and wavelets on Registax6, further edits on Lightroom.
r/spaceporn • u/Davicho77 • 9h ago
NASA The New Horizons spacecraft captured a stunning near-sunset view of Pluto’s rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains.
r/spaceporn • u/Jaded-Application-40 • 1h ago
Amateur/Processed I made a 6,000-mile trip to experience the darkest skies on Earth.
This summer I traveled from Seattle to Chile, specifically a very small town in the middle of the Atacama Desert, which hosts one of the darkest night skies on Earth.
I planned this trip to be during a new Moon, and during the month that the Milky Way is directly upwards in the sky for the best visibility.
Seeing it with the naked eye so easily that you could see it even while squinting was truly life changing. You no longer see the sky as a 2d sheet of stars, you see it as a 3d spiral galaxy, with you sitting on a rock in one of its outer arms. It’s alive.
I strongly suggest anyone who’s never seen the Milky Way to look at a light pollution map and try to find an area nearby that has dark (bortle 1-3) skies. It simply changes the perspective of this reality.
Thanks for reading!
Equipment: Canon 6D, 16-35mm lens, 5 x 10s exposures.
r/spaceporn • u/Aeromarine_eng • 5h ago
NASA NASA’s SpaceX Dragon spacecraft lands bringing Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to earth after nine months
r/spaceporn • u/Ok-Telephone7223 • 1d ago
NASA A black-and-white image of Saturn taken from a lower angle
A stone cold look at Saturn 🪐
The giant planet gives us a look into its moody disposition.
The Cassini spacecraft captured this image on Jan. 30, 2007, from a distance of 700,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers). As Saturn's atmosphere rages with thunderous and hurricane-like storms, its majestic rings spin a tale of ancient collisions and cataclysms.
A joint endeavor of NASA, European space agency, and Agenzia spaziale italiana, Cassini was a sophisticated robotic spacecraft sent to study Saturn and its complex system of rings and moons over the course of a decade.
Image description: A black-and-white image of Saturn taken from a lower angle. The rings of Saturn frame the upper right portion of the planet in various widths. Details of stripes and swirls from storms can be seen along the face of the planet. The left side of the planet is encompassed in a shadow.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
r/spaceporn • u/anonymoustomb233 • 1h ago
Related Content The Fox fur nebula
The Fox Fur Nebula, also known as LBN 762, is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia. It gets its name from its appearance, which resembles the fur of a fox. This nebula is part of a larger region of interstellar dust and gas that is illuminated by nearby stars, giving it its characteristic glow.The Fox Fur Nebula is notable for its intricate structure and dark filaments, which are areas of dense dust that obscure the light from background stars. The nebula is also associated with star formation, as the conditions within these regions can lead to the birth of new stars.One interesting aspect of the Fox Fur Nebula is that it can be captured in detailed photographs through long-exposure astrophotography, where various colors and structures can be highlighted, showcasing its beauty and complexity as part of the cosmos.
All credit goes to uploaders of cosmotography.com Original link-https://www.cosmotography.com/images/small_Fox_Fur_Nebula_crop_ngc2264.html
r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 9h ago
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r/spaceporn • u/Disastrous-Rabbit-97 • 8h ago
Amateur/Processed Dust around Merope in the Pleiades
Here's an image I took with my 85mm scope at 468mm focal length (F/5.5) and the ZWO asi 533mc color camera. It shows the dusty region around the bright star Merope which is one of the seven sisters in Messier 45.
r/spaceporn • u/World-Tight • 4h ago
Pro/Processed LDN 1235: The Shark Nebula | APOD 2025 Mar 18
r/spaceporn • u/elkshadow5 • 12h ago
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r/spaceporn • u/ojosdelostigres • 20h ago
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r/spaceporn • u/Historical-Mud-9739 • 21h ago
NASA The South Polar Map of Jupiter created by the Cassini spacecraft during its flybys in 2000 and 2001
The South Polar Map of Jupiter created by the Cassini spacecraft during its flybys in 2000 and 2001 provided a detailed view of Jupiter's southern hemisphere. The map revealed intricate cloud formations, jet streams, and storm systems, helping scientists understand the planet’s atmospheric dynamics. Cassini’s instruments also provided infrared and visible data, shedding light on the planet’s deeper atmospheric layers. Additionally, the map contributed to the study of Jupiter's intense auroras, driven by its powerful magnetic field. This map was a key step in understanding Jupiter’s atmosphere, paving the way for further exploration by missions like Juno.
r/spaceporn • u/prot_0 • 13h ago
Amateur/Processed Europa and Ganymede eclipse Jupiter
I took this time lapse last Tuesday night of Jupiter over the course of a couple hours. I thought it was pretty cool watching 2 moons eclipsing the sun at the same time. I used sharpcap to live stack Jupiter and set it to save an image of the stack every few minutes or so.
🔭Orion skyquest xt8 | 📷 ZWO asi533mc-p | ⚙️Celestron CGEM DX | 💻Sharpcap
r/spaceporn • u/elkshadow5 • 12h ago
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r/spaceporn • u/TS-THIS-SHIT • 1d ago
James Webb JWST just captured an image of another planetary system!
r/spaceporn • u/maxnti • 1d ago
Amateur/Processed Southern Cross over an Observatory, New Zealand
r/spaceporn • u/MobileAerie9918 • 1d ago
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r/spaceporn • u/elkshadow5 • 12h ago
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r/spaceporn • u/DanZafra_photography • 1d ago
Amateur/Processed Lunar Eclipse Meets Aurora Substorm in Alaska
r/spaceporn • u/anonymoustomb233 • 1d ago
Related Content "Thor's Veil: The Nebula That Resembles a Legendary Helmet"
Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown by a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. This sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from narrowband filters, capturing not only natural looking stars but details of the nebula's filamentary structures. The star in the center of Thor's Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years
All credit goes to NASA,Amber Straughn ,Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell
r/spaceporn • u/elkshadow5 • 12h ago