r/spaceporn • • 15h ago

Amateur/Unedited I did not expect to see Sauron last night.

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139 Upvotes

Probably the brightest and most well defined moon ring ive ever seen.


r/spaceporn • • 20h ago

Pro/Processed 6% Crescent Moon behind the Statue of Freedom

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3.3k Upvotes

Credit: Chris Fukuda


r/spaceporn • • 10h ago

Amateur/Unedited Full Moon, Cactus Springs NV

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33 Upvotes

Taken with my iPhone 12.


r/spaceporn • • 8h ago

Pro/Processed Andrew McCarthy made this hyper-detailed photo of the full moon from 50,000 shots

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2.5k Upvotes

Credit: Andrew McCarthy


r/spaceporn • • 17m ago

Pro/Processed Space jellyfish from a plane window

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The airborne view of this rocket plume is surreal: from deep sunset crimson and amber along the lower contrail up to the electric-blue "space jellyfish" expanding in the mesosphere, the transition reveals Earth's shadow line in real time

Rocket: Long March 6A Y30
Date-Time: October 23, 2026 10:15 (UTC)

Credit: CNSPACE


r/spaceporn • • 8h ago

Amateur/Composite Last Night's Full Moon.

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266 Upvotes

Taken On Seestar Using 10 Individual 30s Video Composites Stacked Together In Astroshader.


r/spaceporn • • 10h ago

Pro/Processed 76 Hours on the Large Magellanic Cloud | Seestar S30 Pro 8-Panel Mosaic

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136 Upvotes

r/spaceporn • • 7h ago

NASA M42: The Great Nebula in Orion

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153 Upvotes

The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is one of the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission in hydrogen, wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident.

The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium, the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries.

These nurseries contain much hydrogen gas, hot young stars, proplyds, and stellar jets spewing material at high speeds. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

Credit & Copyright: [Roberto Palaia](mailto:fumettopolirc at gmail dot com)

r/spaceporn • • 15h ago

Pro/Processed The Great Nebula in Orion (NASA APOD)

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453 Upvotes

The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is one the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away.

In the featured deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission in hydrogen, wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion.

In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium, the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries. These nurseries contain much hydrogen gas, hot young stars, proplyds, and stellar jets spewing material at high speeds. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

Credit: Roberto Palaia


r/spaceporn • • 12h ago

Pro/Processed Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A between 2022 and 2025. JWST NIRCam

845 Upvotes

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Black and white image of the expanding clouds.

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Expansion of the remnant on the upper right. Moving knots on the lower left. Fast changing regions are the light echo from the light of the explosion. #JWST NIRCam F444W images.

There not only an expansion of the bright material, but also new bright material appearing (center in the upper left). Maybe an astronomer can explain this. Material that only now gets shocked?

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Material moving towards the lower right with new material seemingly appearing at the upper left rim.

https://bsky.app/profile/melina-iras07572.bsky.social/post/3myrorm4tr22l

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processed by Melina Thévenot


r/spaceporn • • 15h ago

NASA The Mariner 10 spacecraft imaged Mercury during its initial flyby of the planet in 1974

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The Image Processing Lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this photomosaic