Space is Terrifying - Astrophobia

I like space. There's plenty of it between my ears.

There’s something about space that screams, “you’re not supposed to be here,” it’s like breaking out of bounds in a video game, a pitch black void that expands infinitely in every which direction, with no end in sight.

Thank goodness we are not floating in the middle of space, right guys?

the worst part for me is the fact everything is so far from each other and it goes on forever. an endless void of darkness

What if you woke up in the middle of the night and Jupiter is just standing in the corner of your room watching you?

Pro Tip: If you use less frightening music, space becomes a lot less scary.

Space for me has always been very attractive because of how scary it is. Its scary to the point of being very alluring

"I heard you majored in astronomy in college" "No I didn't?" "Then how come your dad says all you did was take up space?"

My wife: look how beautiful the night sky is. Me: experiencing cosmic horror.

I sometimes get the same creepy feeling looking at the stars as I do looking into deep water.

i grew up absolutely obsessed with space, yet only now do i realize just how thin the line between beautiful and terrifying is when it comes to the vast cosmos

I've never been afraid of space. It's too awe-inspiring, too incomprehensible, to beautiful to be afraid of.

The thing that worries me the most are rogue planets or even worse rogue black holes. The thought of a rogue stellar mass black hole entering the solar system is pretty horrifying. It would completely invisible and undetectable until before we knew it we would be ripped out of our stable orbit around the sun and ejected into deep space or spaghettified by the tidal forces.

When I was a little kid I actually experienced the opposite of astrophobia. I grew up on a farm, and thus had an excellent view of the night sky due to less light pollution, and when I would look up at the stars and the Milky Way overhead, I felt an odd sense of comfort: here am I, a human, on this beautiful planet, able to admire such a magnificent view from our little corner of the universe; looking up at the same moon and same stars that my ancestors all the way back gazed up at. It was like a sense of oneness, with the cosmos and humanity, across time and space.

Ocean planets really scare me too. There could be life down there… but there’s always a bigger fish

can we say how hard the "sorry pluto" feels.

We're either alone in the universe or we aren't. Both possibilities are terrifying

I think one of the scariest things in space is the pulsar that spins at 25% of the speed of light, it’s just so hard to imagine something as massive as a star moving that fast

Space is a huge comfort to me. F in the chat for all the people with Astrophobia

This is the one phobia that I literally cannot relate to. I find the cosmos too beautiful (despite its violence) to be afraid of it actually.