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If You Like Space, You Might Appreciate These 50 Incredible Photos
The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able to see photos captured from the depths of space, where time and distance stretch beyond imagination.
Today, we’ve gathered some of the most breathtaking astronomy photos ever taken — stunning glimpses of stars, planets glowing in distant systems, and galaxies swirling in cosmic harmony. Each image is a reminder of just how small we are… and how beautiful the universe can be. Keep scrolling, and get ready to be amazed.
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#1
I Traveled To The Top Of The Famous Mauna Kea Volcano In Hawaii To Capture The Moment Saturn Slipped Behind The Moon. This Was Captured Using A 14" Telescope I Borrowed On The Island
JayWantsACat 3 months ago
And that's why it's so stupid when people say the moon landing was fake because you can't see any stars. Reflected sunlight is so bright that you can see small moons orbiting another planet that's millions of miles away. Now, try taking pictures on a moon that's millions of miles closer to the sun. It's basically shining a flashlight into your lens while trying to adjust so you can take of a pic of the flashlight itself. OBVIOUSLY THINGS IN THE BACKGROUND OF NOT EQUAL BRIGHTNESS WILL BE WASHED OUT.
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#2
From My Backyard In Az I Captured The Dolphin Head Nebula. This Is My Favorite Image To Date
#3
Saturn Through My 6" Telescope
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Can you imagine Galileo making that out with a 2" lens? He saw the rings before any other human. Colloquially he thought the planet had ears at first.
JayWantsACat 3 months ago
If I lived in an area with almost no light pollution, this really would be my hobby.
David Houde 2 months ago
I got my first telescope around 2000. First evening I got it some clouds were rolling in so I just pointed at the brightest object in the sky not behind the clouds already. Turns out I randomly picked Saturn to look at.
The Universe is mind-bogglingly vast, containing everything we know and much we don’t. From galaxies and stars to planets, cosmic dust, dark matter, and even the energy that fuels expansion, the Universe encompasses all of space, time, matter, and energy. And yes, that includes us. With so many mysteries and wonders, it’s no surprise humans have been staring at the night sky in awe for millennia. Each discovery, no matter how small, gives us a glimpse into the sheer scale and beauty of the cosmos.
#4
The Birth Of A Star, January 25, 2023
#5
I Captured The Rare Supermoon Of 2024 In High Resolution From My Backyard Using An Amateur Telescope
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
It's an overexposure. No false color necessary.
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I Pointed A Telescope Near The Core Of The Milky Way For 10 Hours, And Revealed More Stars Than I Could Possibly Count. The Sky Is So Crowded It Almost Looks Like Noise
Roshan Kassan 3 months ago
How could ANYONE be THAT arrogant to think we're the only intelligent lifeforms out here!
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Never underestimate the ability of idiots to be arrogant. It's their greatest talent.
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Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
The majority of the "stars" in this image are galaxies, we see far more galaxies because of the occlusion of space dust in the direction of our galactic center.
Jay F 2 months ago
How can a telescope on the earth get such clear long-exposures, taking into account The movement of the earth? I once saw Saturn through a telescope and had to keep shifting the view every minute or so. How can you possibly get sucha clear image of something so far away over 10 hours? Additionally, how can space telescopes like Hubble and Webb be stabilized so perfectly that they can get the same clear images of something millions of light years away? Simple language please.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
The Galactic core is dense AF. Cool to look at but again. Radiation.
Let’s talk about age—not birthdays, but cosmic age. The Universe is estimated to be around 13.8 billion years old. It all began with the Big Bang, when everything we know was compressed into an unimaginably tiny, dense, and hot point. Then, in an instant, it began to expand, cool, and evolve, eventually giving rise to galaxies, stars, planets, and the building blocks of life. Essentially, every atom in your body once existed in that first infinitesimal point of cosmic creation.
#7
The “Butterfly Nebula”, June 18, 2020
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Supernova remnants are so pretty from the outside. Don't get too close or the radiation will melt your face off. Then again that's good advice for any shiny object we see in space.
#8
Volcanic Eruption Captured From Space. An Astronaut's Photo Of The Raikoke Volcano Erupting On June 22, 2019
#9
Hubble Views A Vast Galactic Neighborhood, January 08, 2024
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Anyone else remember when Hubble got eyeglasses courtesy of SST Discovery and her crew? One of teh coolest things NASA ever did.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Oh, yes, I remember it well. Also, the Air & Space Museum had a great IMAX documentary about the servicing mission.
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The Universe isn’t random chaos—it follows strict physical laws that govern everything from the motion of planets to the bending of light. Newton’s laws of gravitation explain how celestial bodies attract each other, while Einstein’s Theory of Relativity shows us how gravity affects space and time itself. These rules mean that even the wildest cosmic events, like colliding black holes or exploding stars, operate under predictable patterns, helping scientists make sense of this vast cosmic arena.
#10
In One Of The Most Rewarding Shots Of My Career, I Captured The International Space Station In Conjunction With The 53-Mile-Wide Tycho Crater On The Moon
#11
I Captured The Moon Being Illuminated By The Earth During The Total Eclipse
Nathan Shipman 2 months ago
Beautiful! In 2017 another Eclipse was seen and covered my home state of South Carolina. One Facebook user flew from Greenville (northwest corner of South Carolina) to Charleston (coastal town) and was able to see the Eclipse right outside their airplane window! It was beautiful!
#12
The Sombrero Galaxy
Just like an enormous organization, the Universe has a structured hierarchy. Galaxies are grouped into clusters, clusters into superclusters, and these form the large-scale cosmic web spanning billions of light-years. Within galaxies, stars orbit the center, sometimes with planets, moons, asteroids, and comets accompanying them. This layered structure shows that even the seemingly chaotic expanse of space has an elegant and intricate order underlying its immense scale.
#13
What A Photo
#14
Moon Crosses In Front Of Earth
This photo shows the far side of the Moon, illuminated by the Sun, as it crosses between the DISCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth, one million miles away. Taken August 5, 2015.
#15
I Teamed Up With A Fellow Friend To Try And Capture The Most Ridiculously Detailed Image Of The Entire Sun We Could
The result was a whopping 140 megapixels, and features a solar "tornado" over 14 Earths tall. This is a crop from the full image, make sure you zoom in.
Λjvo 2 months ago (edited)
"Make sure you zoom in" on original post! (https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/122475u/i_teamed_up_with_a_fellow_redditor_to_try_and/)
Alison Marchand 1 month ago
When you go to the OG post & zoom in it looks like a close-up of a furry orange cat 🥹
Senjo Krane 2 months ago
Wow! It looks like spaghetti. wish I could zoom in. this is just amazing.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
regrettably taken at pretty much a sunspot minimum, so there's not much dramatic outgassing.
Scott Rackley 3 months ago
I love the magnetic "hoops" that form from sunspots, they're truly impressive
Load More Replies...Speaking of galaxies, there are billions of them scattered across the Universe. Each galaxy contains millions, sometimes billions, of stars, each potentially with its own planetary system. Our own Milky Way is just one of these countless galaxies, and yet it holds more stars than we can realistically imagine. Some galaxies are compact and densely packed, while others stretch across unimaginable distances, each a universe of possibility in itself.
#16
Holding Pieces Of The Moon And Mars At The Same Time
David Paterson 3 months ago
I don't know either. The black one looks like basalt from the lunar Maria (I've seen one). The white one looks like breccia from the lunar highlands.
Load More Replies... PenguinEmp 3 months ago
Here's a link to the woman whose hands are in the photo. It's from 2018 and the reddit post the pic is from is from someone else pretending to be her. https://twistedsifter.com/2018/04/holding-pieces-of-the-moon-and-mars-on-earth/
Bored Birgit 2 months ago
Thanks, she says: The black one is the Martian one, the gray one is the moon – The martian one landed on Earth after something smacked into Mars and sent rocks flying through space and all the way to Earth! – They were able to tell it was from Mars by the rock’s chemical composition and isotopes
Load More Replies... PenguinEmp 3 months ago
I'd like to know how they are able to do this. Usually it's in a clean room and even if you did touch it, it would be suited up and gloved.
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago (edited)
Why? These are fragments of meteorites found on earth.
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#18
Tiny And Delicate Mineral 'Flower' On Mars. The Rover Team Confirmed This Object Is A Mineral Formation, With Delicate Structures That Formed By Minerals Precipitating From Water, 2022
Closer to home, the Sun and Moon dominate our sky. While they look about the same size from Earth, that’s a cosmic coincidence: the Sun is roughly 400 times larger than the Moon but also 400 times farther away. Their relative size alignment creates phenomena like solar eclipses, making us marvel at nature’s perfect balance. Beyond aesthetics, the Sun provides life-giving energy, and the Moon influences tides, showing just how essential these celestial neighbors are to our planet.
#19
Southern Storms - This Image Shows Jupiter's South Pole, As Seen By Nasa's Juno Spacecraft From An Altitude Of 32,000 Miles (52,000 Kilometers), 2017
Lil be lil 3 months ago
The Jupiter play list...Stormy, Stormy Weather, Who'll stop the rain....
David Houde 2 months ago (edited)
I just want to hop on a space ship for the rest of my life and do a flyby of all the planets on the way to the great beyond.
#20
This Image Shows A View Of The Earth On September 21, 2005 With The Full Antarctic Region Visible
StrangeOne 3 months ago
Isn't this Antarctica? I can see Madagascar and the southern tip of Africa, and Argentina.
Kiki Likes Sweets 3 months ago
Yep! And to the left you can almost see my house from there ( Australia)
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Lil be lil 3 months ago
BP changed it after the replies to the contrary. So hopefully up is down now.
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The Eclipse As Seen From The International Space Station, 2024
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
NEWSFLASH! Dateline CERN! The Large Hadron Collider did, in fact, create a Black Hole! No Film at 11!!!
Lil be lil 3 months ago (edited)
😂😂😂 they shouldn't have used those magnetotizers on each other.
Load More Replies...Here’s a staggering fact: about 95% of the Universe is invisible. According to the BBC, only roughly 4.9% of the mass-energy of the Universe is made of atoms, the kind of stuff we, the stars, and galaxies are made of. Dark matter, which makes up about 26.8% of cosmic mass-energy, exerts gravitational pull but remains unseen.
Meanwhile, dark energy, accounting for 68.3%, fills all of space and drives the Universe’s accelerated expansion. Most of what exists is invisible to our eyes, and scientists are still working to unravel the mysteries of this hidden cosmic majority. It’s a reminder that the Universe is far bigger and stranger than anything we can directly observe.
#22
Detailed Beauty Of Ring Nebula, 2023
Sarah Bailey 3 months ago
Oohhhh looks like the gateway into somewhere spectacularly beautiful, ... Somewhere Heavenly...
#23
Geometric Clusters Of Cyclones Churn Over Jupiter's Poles, 2017
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Eight storms in a circle. Kind of like that hexagon on Saturn.
#24
First Picture Of Earth From The Moon, Taken In 1966
To put cosmic distances in perspective, imagine driving a car at 70 mph straight toward the nearest star outside our solar system. Even then, it would take more than 356 billion years to arrive. Light itself takes more than four years to reach the nearest star system, Proxima Centauri. These mind-bending scales show just how vast the Universe is, and why even our fastest spacecraft barely scratch the cosmic surface.
#25
The Aurora Australis Arcs Above A Partly Cloudy Indian Ocean. From The International Space Station As It Orbited 269 Miles Above In Between Australia And Antarctica On June 12, 2025
#26
This Nasa Hubble Space Telescope Image Captures A Triple-Star Star System
#27
Comet A6 (Lemmon) From My Backyard, 2025
Wow! The Universe is both beautiful and humbling, a mixture of mystery, majesty, and mind-boggling facts. And these give us tiny glimpses into this vastness. Which of these cosmic wonders made you stop and stare? Did you gasp at the size of galaxies, the scale of dark energy, or the sheer age of the Universe? Scroll through, and prepare to feel simultaneously tiny and awe-inspired.
#28
Mars Was Much Larger In The Sky! That Is When I Captured This Photo, Right When Mars Emerged From Occlusion. It’s A Great Time To Take Out Your Telescope, 2023
#29
Saturn’s Rings Display Their Subtle Colors In This View Captured On August 22, 2009, By Nasa’s Cassini Spacecraft
#30
The Needle Galaxy Is Nearly 50 Million Light-Years Away. I Used 11 Hours Of Exposure Time To Capture It From My Backyard
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
50 years ago our best telescopes couldn't manage this image, and now he can do it in his backyard. It has been so much fun watching all this.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Where do you have to live where you get 11 hours of clear night sky?
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Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
11 hours with no interference from weather or satellites is pretty lucky.
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
Someone with a right angle perspective might wonder why we called it the Needle Galaxy.
#31
Sunset In Mars, Mar 11, 2024
#32
The Family Photo That Charlie Duke Left On The Moon On April 23, 1972
Doofnuts 3 months ago
Awww guit ur bitchin". We're adapting to this c**p. I think. I don't actually know. we're going die huh?
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Bleached white by solar radiation by now unfortunately. We're never going to live on the moon unless we learn how to deal with that. Same goes for Mars. Sorry Elon.
Michael None 3 months ago
Likely destroyed from solar radiation right? I can't imagine it surviving.
#33
The Heart Of Pluto, 2015
michael reid 3 months ago
I believe it's a vast plain of solid nitrogen that convects up from below slowly, like glaciers, keeping the surface refreshed constantly. The heat source is likely from tidal forces within due to its elliptical orbit.
Lil be lil 3 months ago
How dare they try and down grade me. I am Planet! Hear my roar! Or something....
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The Koreas At Night, January 30, 2014
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
If you zoom in you can see street grids defined in grids, but otherwise I think the sidewalks go up about 8 pm.
Robin Roper 2 months ago
It's striking but also clearly shows the amount of energy spent on nighttime lights. If these could be dimmed by 25% it would save a huge amount of energy.
#35
Photo Taken Of Hurricane Florence Convection With Deep Eyewall In Atlantic Sea, 2018
michael reid 3 months ago
The Atlantic is split into 2 seas, north and south Atlantic sea, it doesn't say which!
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 2 months ago
Florence caused $17 Billion damage in NC alone. These huge storms a lot of money.
#36
Nasa Releases Stunning Photo Of Beautiful Blue Dunes On Mars. This Scene Combines Images Taken During The Period From December 2002 To November 2004
#37
Two Dramatically Different Faces Of Our Red Planet Neighbor Appear In These Comparison Images Showing How A Global Dust Storm Engulfed Mars
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
" 'Cause you'll always know your neighbor, you'll always know your pal, If you've ever navigated on the Tharsis Canal..."
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Bartlet for world domination 3 months ago
Have we all seen Good Night Oppy on Prime? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Night_Oppy About as anthropomorphizing as Wall-E, very cute documentary about the Mars rovers.
#38
An Astronaut’s View Of The Himalayas
Lil be lil 3 months ago (edited)
I could conquer those.... They look sooo tiny. Edited thank you...
#39
Flower Grown On The International Space Station
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
My husband says this is the most sadly confused plant he has seen in his life 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#40
Nasa’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image Of Universe Yet, July 12, 2022
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 3 months ago
I wonder how far back in time we're seeing here. How many of these galaxies no longer exist, and we just haven't found out yet?
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
4.6 Billion years ago. Roughly the same age as the Earth itself. So most of them are still around.
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 3 months ago
That bright spot in the center has some serious gravity. Look at the lensing of the galaxies around it.
S Bow 3 months ago
Yes, I believe this is the Abell cluster of galaxies, possibly the first image of galactic lensing, or a more recent image of that cluster.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
The feeling of utter insignificance this image create is both frightening and freeing.
#41
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, April 1, 2018
martymcmatrix 3 months ago
I think it's officially called »Fried Egg and Bacon«...🤹🏽
Load More Replies... michael reid 3 months ago
April fool. It's actually a trifle viewed through the side of the bowl.
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
My mother used to make trifles, although they were so rich, she called them substantials.
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Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan, And The Second Largest One, June 16, 2011
#43
Astronaut Bruce Mccandless Performs The First Untethered Spacewalk
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II approaches his maximum distance from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger in this 70mm photo from Feb. 7, 1984.
#44
Black Hole Shoots A Plasma Beam Through Space, 2024
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 3 months ago (edited)
Nopeee nope nope nope. I thought black holes weren't supposed to do that. Edit - read the NASA article, apparently it also made any stars nearby explode. Quoting from the page here: "The blowtorch-like jet seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory."
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
Oh, that's not at all terrifying, is it? A galactic flamethrower. New fear unlocked.
#45
A Falcon 9 Rocket Transiting Our Sun. Apparently, This Is The First Image Of It's Kind, Revealing The Details Of The Solar Chromosphere Behind An Ascending Rocket, 2025
Purple Gurl 3 months ago
I am prob gonna get busted here, but that looks like a needle doing artificial insemination
WindySwede 3 months ago
Even more amazing if you click the link, super large image there! 🙀
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Color Mosaic Of Triton And Neptune, Taken By Voyager 2 During Its Flyby Of The Neptune System In 1989
#47
Crescent Earth, Jun 30, 2009
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
Not quite, some people had their ashes sent into space, so they're not in it. Also, more than half the planet is hidden.
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Buzz Aldrin Took This Iconic Image Of A Bootprint On The Moon During The Apollo 11 Moonwalk On July 20, 1969
#49
Realistic Size And Distance Between The Andromeda Galaxy And Milky Way
Rtblast66 3 months ago
"The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are likely to collide in about 4.5 to 5 billion years, or potentially later, as new research suggests the collision is not as certain as previously thought" If they do, practically nothing will collide, stars etc. Space is just ..big
martymcmatrix 3 months ago
Yeah, but they are going to become one and form a new galaxy...it's called a »galaxy merger«...🙋🏽
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#50
City Lights Dot The U.S. Landscape. May 21, 2025
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
Notice the obvious grids. We think detection of intelligent life on other planets will probably be indicated by the use of Euckidian geometry.
#51
Astronaut Don Pettit’s Fingers Are Refracted In This Sphere Of Water, October 19, 2024
#52
Mackenzie Meets Beaufort, July 19, 2017
Canada’s largest and longest river delivers vast amounts of fresh water and sediment to the sea.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
For just one time I would take the Northwest Passage to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea...
#53
Red Ribbon Crossing The Cosmos, 2008
Lucifer 3 months ago
A remnant of a supernova that was viewed by humans 1,000 years ago from 7,000 light-years away. The name of this stellar explosion is SN 1006, and was observed in 1006 A.D. It would have been the brightest star ever seen by humans-so bright that it could be seen during the daytime.
Scott Rackley 2 months ago
Haven't you seen Star Trek? It's the nexus. :P
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#54
I Left My Camera Running For An Entire Night And Captured Hundreds Of Meteors, 2024
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
When we speak of meteor "showers", usually it's one every 5 to 10 minutes. Meteors are not fireworks.
Robin Roper 2 months ago
During the 1968 Perseid shower, one night I laid on my back on a dock on Bogue Sound in NC. There were so many meteors it was impossible to keep count. A great memory.
Bartlet for world domination 3 months ago
How did they keep the Milky Way and the trees in the same place?
#55
An Astronaut Captured A Moment Of Morning Beauty In A Region Often Shrouded In Clouds, July 5, 2018
#57
Astronaut Nichole Ayers Trims Astronaut Anne Mcclain’s Hair, May 31, 2025
#58
Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time To Shine, 2025
#59
You Can Spot This Recently Discovered Ionised Gas Cloud In Our Image On The Left Hand Side, 2023
#61
Florida’s Rocks And Rocketeers
An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this oblique photograph of Florida, on the southeastern coast of the United States. The image highlights the state’s many lakes, as well as the shallow, light-toned waters of the Florida Keys.
#62
Volcanic Eruption From Space, June 12, 2009
#64
The International Space Station (ISS) Will Be The Largest Human-Made Object Ever To Orbit The Earth, 12 December 2006
#66
The Aurora Australis Swirls Over A Cloudy Pacific Ocean In This Photograph From The International Space Station As It Orbited 270 Miles Above And Southeast Of New Zealand, June 3, 2025
#67
Astronaut Nick Hague Exercises On The Advanced Resistive Exercise Device, October 29, 2024
#68
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Swallows Earth
Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth. This composite image was generated by combining NASA imagery of Earth with an image of Jupiter taken by astronomer Christopher Go.
#69
Nasa’s Webb Captures Dying Star’s Final "Performance" In Fine Detail, July 12, 2022
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
All that will become new stars and worlds. I am totally into the romance of science.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
"There were a bunch of us who believed there was more romance in one issue of 'Electrical Experimenter' than in anything Dumas ever wrote..." - D. D. Harriman
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Nasa Astronauts Make Pizza Aboard The International Space Station, September 9, 2024
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
I wonder if they get advertising bucks for the donations from Hormel.
Shary Bobbings 2 months ago
Hahaha, I just can think in Homer Simpson eating chips with the Blue Danube soundtrack
#71
Our Milky Way
Our home galaxy is called the Milky Way. It’s a spiral galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light-years. Earth is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Our solar system takes about 240 million years to orbit the Milky Way just once.
StrangeOne 3 months ago
Wow. Amazing how they were able to capture the full milky way from outer space, from Earth. /s
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
Who knew the galactic core was shaped like Stewie Griffin's head?
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
We had a pretty good idea. Technically, this type is called a 'barred spiral' because of the central bar.
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Astronauts Jessica Watkins And Bob Hines Work On A Space Botany Study, June 24, 2022
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
'Farmer in the Sky', by Robert A. Heinlein. Good book.
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Expedition 67 Crew Members Pose With Fresh Fruit Flying Weightlessly, June 3, 2022
#74
A Black Hole Gobbles Up A Star
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration from Dec. 20, 2022. A long stream of hot gas on the right, coming from a star that was pulled apart by the black hole, feeds into the disk.
These events, known as tidal disruption events, can take just a matter or weeks or months from the destruction of the star to the formation of the disk. The gas gets hotter the closer it gets to the black hole, but the hottest material – a cloud of plasma called a corona – can be found above it.
Starbug 3 months ago
Even the real photographs are heavily edited (for clarity, colour etc). The actual photos look like blurred blobs - to my completely untrained eyes at least
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Joshua Santiago 2 months ago
While wrong category i suppose, this is still magnificent by its own rights. Perhaps in the future we can see something better and similar.
#75
Genetically Modified, Extremely Dwarf Tomato Plants Grow Aboard The International Space Station, May 16, 2025
The space botany experiment tests the plants ability to grow without photosynthesis and survive in confined environments in weightlessness potentially supporting crop production on spacecraft.
#76
An Unusual Star (Circled In White At Right) Behaving Like No Other Seen Before And Its Surroundings Are Featured In This Composite Image Released On May 28, 2025
Pieter LeGrande 2 months ago
Nope, definitely said the star was behaving.
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UFO Over The Sonoran Desert? Nope, Just A Falcon Rocket Screaming Into Space, 2025
#78
Astronaut Suni Williams Is Pictured During A Six-Hour Spacewalk, January 16, 2025
#79
Astronauts Wear Eye-Protecting Specs In Anticipation Of The Solar Eclipse, March 26, 2024
#80
\40 Years Ago, Space Shuttle Atlantis Launched On Its First Mission. The Shuttle And Crew Traveled 1.7 Million Miles Before Returning To Earth, July 10, 2011
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
I saw the ISS followed by Atlantis one night at about 2 a.m. when I took my dog out. They just looked like two stars, but I knew they weren't. A friend confirmed that it was the ISS and Atlantis.
#81
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Play Chess With Nasa Mission Controllers, April 17, 2023
Pieter LeGrande 2 months ago
One question: why are they wearing belts? Their pants won't fall down.
#82
Matthew Dominick Poses For A Portrait In The Cupola With His Camera As The International Space Station Orbited 261 Miles Above The Atlantic Ocean Off The Coast Of Africa, October 11, 2024
#83
On July 31, 1964, The Ranger 7 Spacecraft Took This Photo, The First Image Of The Moon Taken By A United States Spacecraft
17 minutes later, it crashed into the Moon on the northern rim of the Sea of Clouds as intended. The 4,316 images sent back helped identify safe Moon landing sites for Apollo astronauts.
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Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
I like that the romace of science is so well co well captured in these images.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 3 months ago
My favorite part about space is that everything in it is insanely dangerous and will k**l you. Black holes are scary already, guess what, sometimes they can MOVE and emit PLASMA BEAMS. Like stars? Have a pulsar, which spins and shoots out radiation beams. Are exoplanets cool to you? Here are multiple getting destroyed by their own stars. And a ton of other examples.
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
Shame about the "illustrations" though - either drop them or make the title more accurate.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
I like that the romace of science is so well co well captured in these images.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 3 months ago
My favorite part about space is that everything in it is insanely dangerous and will k**l you. Black holes are scary already, guess what, sometimes they can MOVE and emit PLASMA BEAMS. Like stars? Have a pulsar, which spins and shoots out radiation beams. Are exoplanets cool to you? Here are multiple getting destroyed by their own stars. And a ton of other examples.
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
Shame about the "illustrations" though - either drop them or make the title more accurate.
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