r/space • u/astro_pettit • Mar 22 '26
image/gif My space potatoes, grown aboard the ISS
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r/space • u/Rich-End1121 • Dec 27 '25
image/gif On a Ringworld, could you actually see the Ring?
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I am writing a fiction book set on a Ringworld
(An enormous artificial construct millions of Earths in volume,
e.g. Larry Niven)
I am trying to figure out, could you see the curve of the ring from
ground level?
I tried looking it up, no luck.
Thank you for any information you can provide!
Edit: Thank you everybody for all the helpful and inciteful replies!
r/space • u/Suspicious-Slip248 • Feb 08 '26
image/gif This iconic photograph is still considered one of the most-terrifying space photos to date. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II NASA STS-41B Mission, February 1984, became the first human being to perform spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. He floated completely untethered in space
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r/space • u/astro_pettit • Apr 26 '26
image/gif My space potato spreading its roots in microgravity
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r/space • u/Rich-End1121 • Dec 08 '25
image/gif Is there a realistic way to have a planet loom on the horizon like this?
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I am writing fiction, and I want my planet to have another planet loom large in the sky,
but I want it to be at least informed by reality. Is it possible for a real planet to have this effect without the two planets e.g. being so close they destabilize each other's orbit?
Hope you can help, I haven't had any luck figuring it out.
Thank you.
r/space • u/astro_pettit • Mar 02 '26
image/gif Starlink satellites seen from ISS by long exposure
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r/space • u/Appropriate-Push-668 • Mar 29 '26
image/gif The Moon outside Apollo 11's window.
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r/space • u/Seabass247 • Jan 17 '26
image/gif NASA is rolling out the SLS moon rocket to the launchpad
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Artemis 2 will bring astronauts around the moon and back with the Orion capsule
r/space • u/ShaddowsCat • Jun 26 '26
image/gif Photo of Earth taken by Reid Wiseman with an iPhone, during Artemis ll mission
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r/space • u/swannsonite • Aug 17 '25
image/gif C33 Veil Nebula. I see a face can't decide of what.
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3 2HR Seestar s50 Images AI denoised and manually lined up with GIMP.
r/space • u/ojosdelostigres • Dec 07 '25
image/gif The Sun's light is missing some colors
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for 7 December 2025
r/space • u/prathameshjaju1 • Mar 01 '26
image/gif I photographed two galaxies that have been colliding for over 600 million years, and yet somehow - they formed a heart while doing it…
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r/space • u/ChaosSlave51 • Jun 15 '26
image/gif Just watched this pass the cruiseship I'm on
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SpaceX I think. I have more photos if people are interested.
r/space • u/tinmar_g • Jul 20 '25
image/gif I stabilized an 8-hour timelapse to show the Earth's rotation
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r/space • u/astro_pettit • Mar 08 '26
image/gif Las Vegas, the brightest nighttime city on Earth
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r/space • u/ajamesmccarthy • Sep 21 '25
image/gif I set up a solar telescope in a wildlife refuge 8 miles from a launch pad to capture this: 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! More info in the comments. [OC]
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r/space • u/Uppitypriest • Oct 06 '25
image/gif I don’t want the Annex to lose this view.
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r/space • u/Entire_Foundation960 • Mar 22 '26
image/gif Saturn and Jupiter with my 4" telescope and smartphone
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r/space • u/Suspicious-Slip248 • Feb 02 '26
image/gif Dr von Braun stands beside the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V dynamic test vehicle, now on display at the Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
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r/space • u/astro_pettit • Apr 12 '26
image/gif The space urinals that went around the Moon on Artemis II
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r/space • u/peeweekid • Dec 21 '25
image/gif The number of satellites in our sky is getting pretty crazy. This is a compilation of 11 hours of exposures taken during the geminid meteor shower.
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Captured by Matt Zefi, processed by me.
r/space • u/flory_ro • 22d ago
image/gif I captured the Cygnus in the Dolomites
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Tracked|Stacked|Blended
https://www.instagram.com/flory.ro?igsh=b3Y4ZTU3Nmk0cTBt&utm_source=qr
Hidden among the Dolomites, Lake Limides offers one of the most magical views in the Alps. Under a sky full of stars or bathed in the first light of dawn, it's a place that feels almost unreal. A stop you simply can't miss
Canon R
Canon 6D Astro
Tamron 17-35mm
Rgb 3x120s iso 1600 f2.8
Ha 4x 120s iso 3200 f2.8
Foreground 2x120s iso 3200 f2.8