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r/Stargazing

The brightness of Dark. Join in the Gaze. Founded 2012 · 153.7K members

154.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 11.7K upvotes, which works out to 76 per 1,000 members.

76peak upvotes per 1,000 members
154.7Kmembers
11.7Kbest post
218most comments
401posts 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.

55% 20% 9% 8%
Image 55% Gallery 20% Link 9% Video 8% Text 5% Question 3%

What the ceiling looks like

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

The Milky Way perched atop my house

↑ 11.7K 💬 112 image 2025

The stars in New Zealand

↑ 9.1K 💬 49 image 2025

Nightsky full of stars

↑ 7K 💬 56 video 2025

Road to the Milky Way 🔭✨

↑ 6.8K 💬 47 image 2025

Uluru at Night, Australia

↑ 6.2K 💬 50 image 2025

Moon and Venus last night

↑ 6.1K 💬 218 image 2025

Clear Night

↑ 5.5K 💬 55 gallery 2025

Dark Sky Reserve in New Zealand

↑ 5.4K 💬 21 image 2025

Waterfall at night in New Zealand

↑ 5.3K 💬 30 image 2025

Nature really is the ultimate artist.

↑ 5.1K 💬 24 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/Stargazing, in numbers

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

What is r/Stargazing?
r/Stargazing ("The brightness of Dark") describes itself this way: Join in the Gaze. It was founded in 2012 and has 153.7K members.
How many members does r/Stargazing have?
r/Stargazing has about 154.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 401 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.7K upvotes, which is 76 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Stargazing?
"The Milky Way perched atop my house" reached 11.7K upvotes and 112 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Stargazing.
What subreddits are similar to r/Stargazing?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/Stargazing?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are image posts and 20% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Stargazing?
Across 401 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 14:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (2.5K 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/Stargazing?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Stargazing has 3.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 17 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Stargazing, 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.