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r/spaceNSFW

/r/space: news, articles and discussion. Share & discuss informative content on: * Astrophysics * Cosmology * Space Exploration * Planetary Science * Astrobiology Founded 2008 · 28M members

28M members. The best post we have captured here reached 219.8K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
28Mmembers
219.8Kbest post
17.5Kmost comments
2.2Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

45% 33% 9% 8%
Link 45% Image 33% Text 9% Video 8% Question 3% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

image/gif 162 Discussion 88 spacers only 1 April fools 1 composite 1 READ STICKIED COMMENT 1 2K image 1 CONFIRMED 1 Adjusted colours 1 Lakes under ice cap 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I'm 17 years old and just finished building this 14.7" f/2.89 Newtonian reflector telescope. Despite its stubby size it collects roughly 2500 times m…

↑ 219.8K 💬 5K image 2020

Half-naked girls get thousands of upvotes, how many for our boy in blue?

↑ 205K 💬 2.2K image 2017

First full-colour Image of deep space from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed by NASA (in 4k)

↑ 186.3K 💬 8.2K image 2022

I took nearly 50,000 images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of Tuesday's moon. Uncompressed image linked in the comments. [OC]

↑ 178.8K 💬 3.9K image 2019

By complete accident I captured a plane crossing in front of our sun. I was able to figure out exactly which flight it was and got connected with the…

↑ 167.3K 💬 1.7K image 2021

The clearest image of Mars ever taken!

↑ 152.2K 💬 2.4K image 2019

And just like that, a space race is born.

↑ 136.4K 💬 3.6K image 2017

Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

↑ 134.5K 💬 6.1K link 2019

I teamed up with a fellow redditor to try and capture the most ridiculously detailed image of the entire sun we could. The result was a whopping 140 …

↑ 130.2K 💬 3.4K image 2023

Two years ago, I teamed up with a fellow redditor to try and take the most ridiculous moon shot we could come up with. Today, we proudly introduce ou…

↑ 125K 💬 2.3K image 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/space, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/space?
r/space ("/r/space: news, articles and discussion") describes itself this way: Share & discuss informative content on: * Astrophysics * Cosmology * Space Exploration * Planetary Science * Astrobiology. It was founded in 2008 and has 28M members.
How many members does r/space have?
r/space has about 28M members. ViralHunt has tracked 2.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 219.8K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/space?
"I'm 17 years old and just finished building this 14.7" f/2.89 Newtonian reflector telescope. Despite its stubby size it collects roughly 250" reached 219.8K upvotes and 5K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/space.
What subreddits are similar to r/space?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/therewasanattempt, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside, r/oddlysatisfying, r/MadeMeSmile.
What kind of posts do best on r/space?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are link posts and 33% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/space?
Across 2.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 00:00 UTC (65K avg upvotes), Sunday at 12:00 UTC (47.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 23:00 UTC (39.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/space?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/space has 108K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 211 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/space, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.