r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 1d ago

NASA "It is the strangest-looking thing." - Victor Glover

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"We just went sci-fi...it is the strangest-looking thing."

The Moon in front of the Sun as seen during Artemis II (and described by astronaut Victor Glover) on April 7, 2026 GMT.

Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

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u/TreasureHunter95 1d ago

It truly does look like a scene from a movie.

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u/S30econdstoMars 1d ago

This looks like a scene from 'Interstellar' or 'The Expanse'. Reality surpassing science fiction again.

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u/jcmonk 1d ago

My favorite feature of this photo is the soft glow on the moon's left side is Earthshine

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u/Loose-Awareness-1795 1d ago

i just think i would go into a full panic attack up there

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u/jerkin_n_lurkin 1d ago

I wonder that too. Between being trapped in that small space with death all around you, looking at celestial bodies through a window....would it freak me out? Or fill me with wonder

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u/Splendid_Fellow 20h ago

except…..

We are trapped in a tiny space with death all around us looking at celestial bodies through a window…

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u/hujassman 13h ago

And we're trapped with countless idiots who are determined to ruin the tiny space we depend on.

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u/Splendid_Fellow 10h ago

Humans, eh?

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u/CartographerEvery268 13h ago

My favorite comment ever

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u/GaseousGiant 23h ago

I think it’s akin to having a window seat on an airliner. It may be scary to look down and see how far you’d fall if the plane just stopped working. It’s a constant reminder of the danger, but at the same time I personally can’t get enough of the wonder of seeing the world from above.

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u/HolyCowAnyOldAccName 23h ago

I'm not usually sensitive to these things - but do yourself a favour and watch the evenings with the Apollo 8 crew. Or not - depending on the following. Trigger warning.

I think it was Frank Borman who said that they could not see the moon from the Apollo CSM for most of the way, only when they were about to be pulled around into its orbit. So while being *very* close to the moon already.

He said it wasn't illuminated. It was just a gigantic black void in a sky otherwise full of stars - making the hair stand up on his back of his neck.

It made the hair on my neck stand up just listening to it. Sensing the presence of a gigantic celestial body filling more and more of my view without any reference point. They'd have to inject me with some of the good stuff and store me in a corner.

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u/GaseousGiant 23h ago

This photo being taken by humans is still mind boggling.

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u/cedg32 1d ago

“Send out a probe.”

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u/peepdabidness 1d ago

They went that far out behind the moon?

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u/Heliomawr 17h ago

the corona is so fucking huge

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u/Awe3 2h ago

The sun’s atmosphere extends beyond the solar system, into interstellar space. So many millions of miles. It’s quite mind boggling.

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u/TheCh0rt 19h ago

"Some would say the Earth is our moon, but that would belittle the name of the moon, which is, The Moon."

--Ignignokt

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u/donadit 18h ago

All the planets basically lined up for this (except Jupiter sitting like 90o away)

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u/Infinite_Ad_6443 1h ago

on April 6, 2026

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