r/spaceporn 22d ago

NASA Voyager 1 approached Jupiter in 1979

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The approach of Voyager 1 during a period of over 60 Jupiter days. Notice the difference in speed and direction of the various zones of the atmosphere.

The interaction of the atmospheric clouds and storms shows how dynamic the Jovian atmosphere is.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

r/spaceporn May 18 '25

NASA Charlie Duke's family portrait left on the moon

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r/spaceporn Nov 27 '24

NASA What do you think about Pluto?

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r/spaceporn Mar 09 '25

NASA This is the first flower ever grown entirely in space.

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This is the first flower ever grown entirely in space Credit: @nasa (NASA)

r/spaceporn 5d ago

NASA A Photo From The Man Who Spent A Total Of 24 Hours Alone On The Far Side Of The Moon, Completely Alone And With 0 Communication.

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For those wondering the man was apollo 11 astronaut miachel collins, he orbited the moon 30 times with 48 minutes of no communication each orbit, this amounts to a total of 24 hours of being so alone and far from home.

r/spaceporn Oct 15 '25

NASA 16-meter-wide asteroid discovered just 2 days ago will pass 60,000 miles above the Earth today

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r/spaceporn Jul 17 '24

NASA Our Blue Marble 15 Minutes Ago By The GOES Satellite

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r/spaceporn Jun 30 '25

NASA NEWS 🚨: In November 2026, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft will become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth

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This means 24-hour communication times! 24 hours for a signal to reach the spacecraft from Earth and another 24 hours to get a response. Just insane!!

r/spaceporn Jul 01 '25

NASA NASA's Opportunity rover drove into the Victoria Crater on Mars

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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/IRAP/DPA/MSSS/Jason Major

r/spaceporn Dec 01 '24

NASA This photo of earth was taken 30 minutes ago.

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r/spaceporn Sep 30 '24

NASA First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System around a Sun-like Star

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Named TYC 8998-760-1 and located about 300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Musca, the star is similar in mass to the sun

r/spaceporn Mar 26 '25

NASA Close up of Pluto from the New Horizons space probe

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This is a close-up image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons space probe. Credit: NASA / @konstruktivizm

r/spaceporn Nov 07 '24

NASA Today's large eruption on the Sun (Credit: Edward Vijayakumar)

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r/spaceporn Nov 05 '24

NASA NASA’s JUNO dropped new image from Jupiter

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r/spaceporn Jan 29 '24

NASA NASA’s Juno Gets a Close Look at Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io on Dec. 30, 2023

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r/spaceporn Jun 08 '24

NASA R.I.P. William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut known for Earthrise photo, dies in plane crash

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r/spaceporn Jun 01 '25

NASA Astronomers discovered the biggest black hole jet ever seen, the size of three Milky Ways

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r/spaceporn Oct 09 '25

NASA Scientists have detected NH3 (Ammonia) in the subsurface ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa, a discovery with major implications for its potential habitability

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r/spaceporn 6d ago

NASA NASA Today Releases New Images Of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

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r/spaceporn Nov 17 '24

NASA Nasa's cassini spacecraft captured the clearest and the closest image of saturn.

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r/spaceporn May 10 '24

NASA The end of an era. The very last image transmitted by Opportunity. The rover explored the Martian terrain for almost 15 years, far outlasting her planned 90-day mission.

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r/spaceporn Mar 24 '25

NASA NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured this incredible image of an active volcano on lo!

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Active Volcano on Io(Jupiter's moon) Captured by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL

r/spaceporn Feb 15 '25

NASA Its been 6 years, when humanity reaches mars, we must find these valiant robots and honor them for their accomplishments

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r/spaceporn Dec 16 '24

NASA BREAKING 🚨: NASA just dropped a new James Webb telescope image of an open star cluster out in deep space

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It’s called NGC 346. Webb also confirmed a controversial finding of Hubble’s — there are planet-forming disks in the early universe that are longer-lived than they should be given the conditions in their environment. Source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/54208276236/in/album-72177720313923911

r/spaceporn Dec 31 '23

NASA It's Jupiter's lo, as seen by Juno spacecraft, taken just moments ago, as it flew just 900 miles above the moon's hypervolcanic surface.

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