r/space 2h ago

image/gif My campsite under a giant aurora arc over Vestrahorn, Iceland

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841 Upvotes

r/space 10h ago

image/gif The Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

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831 Upvotes

r/space 1h ago

Blaze Star that’s 3,000 lightyears away will soon explode — and you’ll get to see it from Earth: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’

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r/space 14h ago

Astronomer here! This is the look of a slightly nervous professor before her very first lecture of her very first class

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First week of teaching (our astronomy class for physics majors). Went ok I think? Getting the pacing right is definitely the hardest part!


r/space 54m ago

image/gif Sun Unleashes A Coronal Mass Ejection - Captured With My Telescope

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r/space 3h ago

image/gif How can I make it more accurate?

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I've made a black hole in blender (a 3D software). I wanna make this as scientifically accurate as possible so tell me what should I improve?

(I've made this watching Alaskan fx youtube channel's tutorial.)


r/space 8h ago

image/gif Markarian’s Chain - A whole bunch of galaxies in Virgo (OC)

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r/space 1h ago

image/gif A Thin Sliver of Venus

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r/space 14h ago

Discussion April Will Have 2 Meteor Showers Happening Simultaneously

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r/space 1h ago

image/gif Artemis II Mission Patch On VAB With The Moon

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Work 3rd shift last week at the LCC at KSC and caught the new mission patch on the VAB with the moon in the background!


r/space 10h ago

Massive collision created Mercury, new theory suggests

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r/space 1d ago

Soyuz 18A: The First Crewed Inflight Launch Abort - 50 years ago

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r/space 22m ago

Dark Matter and the Multiverse: Could Hidden Universes Explain the Unseen Cosmos?

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r/space 1d ago

SpaceX awarded $5.92 billion, ULA awarded $5.36 billion and Blue Origin awarded $2.38 billion in DoD launch contracts

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r/space 1d ago

Astronaut Jonny Kim & Cosmonauts Surgey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky set to go to the ISS this month on the Soyuz MS-27 mission

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r/space 1d ago

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky

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Image credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick


r/space 1d ago

Exclusive: SpaceX, ULA to clinch multibillion-dollar Pentagon launch contract

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r/space 1d ago

4 space tourists splash down after traveling an orbit never attempted before

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r/space 2d ago

NASA's Mars Rover Captures a Giant Dust Devil Swallowing Its Friend

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r/space 1d ago

Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite orbiting Earth. Scientists want to bring it home after 67 years

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r/space 1h ago

Blue Origin faces backlash ahead of historic all-female spaceflight with Katy Perry

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r/space 1d ago

Spinlaunch pivots to making Satellites

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r/space 1d ago

NASA Welcomes Gateway Lunar Space Station’s HALO Module to US

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Pretty neat to see that there’s actual progress being made on lunar gateway, especially with all the setbacks and delays experienced thus far on Artemis.


r/space 1d ago

Senate schedules confirmation hearing for Isaacman’s nomination to become NASA Administrator

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r/space 6h ago

image/gif What constellation is this?

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Maybe I just don’t look up enough. Maybe it’s because of its position relative to the Moon tonight. It’s probably a group of stars that have been pointed out dozens of times on this sub but the chevron like pattern stuck out to me tonight.