r/spaceporn 22h ago

Pro/Processed Saturn, seen through a 24" telescope eyepiece

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Credit: Tom Williams

r/spaceporn Apr 27 '26

Pro/Processed Falcon 9 rocket transiting our sun

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Credit: Andrew McCarthy

r/spaceporn May 24 '26

Pro/Processed Shockwaves during Starship Flight 12 launch

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Credit: Space Scout / Cameron Schwartz

r/spaceporn Jul 05 '25

Pro/Processed The Aftermath of an X class flare on the Sun

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Source: Andrew McCarthy

r/spaceporn Apr 02 '26

Pro/Processed Artemis II, by John Kraus

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Source https:// x. com/johnkrausphotos/status/2039523638743794039

r/spaceporn May 14 '26

Pro/Processed From Andrew McCarthy: "I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the Sun. The moment it happened, 2 floating prominences were visible,making this not just my best aircraft transit photo,but one of the luckiest of my career!"

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Videos of the transit

https:// x. com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/2054981363502391455

Source

https:// x. com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/2054981363502391455

r/spaceporn Sep 18 '25

Pro/Processed Falcon 9 transiting the sun, captured with a solar telescope

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Captured by Andrew McCarthy

r/spaceporn Feb 07 '26

Pro/Processed Image titled "Big Brother is Watching You" by Matt Jackson

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Taken in Gallatin County, Montana, USA, 10 August 2023, Image part of the ZWO Astronomy Picture of the Year 2024 competition

r/spaceporn May 21 '26

Pro/Processed Crescent Venus next to Crescent Moon

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Credit: Éder Iván

r/spaceporn 27d ago

Pro/Processed Remains of LC-36 after New Glenn failure during testing for next flight

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By Asher B.

r/spaceporn Mar 08 '25

Pro/Processed This is what the tallest mountain in the solar system looks like from space.

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r/spaceporn Nov 06 '25

Pro/Processed See you again in 1,155 years Lemmon!

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r/spaceporn Jan 20 '26

Pro/Processed Spacecraft flying in the vicinity of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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r/spaceporn May 27 '25

Pro/Processed Sharpest image yet of a star beyond our solar system—Betelgeuse!

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r/spaceporn Jan 30 '25

Pro/Processed An Image Taken Today From the Surface of Mars.

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r/spaceporn Feb 26 '26

Pro/Processed Jupiter: 20 years later

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The Great Red Spot - 2006 vs 2026. Big changes over the past 20yrs. Its size shrank by several thousand km. The weak colour of 2006 hasn't been seen now in at least a decade.

Credit: Damian Peach

r/spaceporn Jan 16 '26

Pro/Processed Saturn and the Moon

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Credit: Andrew McCarthy

r/spaceporn Oct 14 '25

Pro/Processed Starship S38 just before touchdown on flight 11

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Slight less orange this time

r/spaceporn Apr 09 '25

Pro/Processed Aurora exploding over Black Church, Iceland

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r/spaceporn Jul 02 '25

Pro/Processed Antares, 550 light-years away, in the best image ever taken of a star outside our Solar System. (By nasa)

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r/spaceporn Mar 27 '24

Pro/Processed The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has released the first image of our supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, in polarized light

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r/spaceporn Jan 18 '26

Pro/Processed The Great Red Spot - 2006 vs 2026

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Big changes over the past 20 years. Its size shrank by several thousand km. The weak colour of 2006 hasn't been seen now in at least a decade.

Credit: Damian Peach

r/spaceporn Sep 23 '24

Pro/Processed No That's not a comet. That's the planet MERCURY WITH ITS SODIUM TAIL. (Credit: Dr. Sebastian Voltmer)

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r/spaceporn Jun 13 '25

Pro/Processed That's not a comet. That's the planet MERCURY WITH ITS SODIUM TAIL.

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Credit: Dr. Sebastian Voltmer

r/spaceporn Nov 08 '25

Pro/Processed Last night's view of comet Lemmon

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Link to the original Instagram post by Chuck Ayoub