Space ASCII art

Rockets, planets, the moon, stars and flying saucers drawn with keyboard characters. Click one to copy it.

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   .--.
  /  .-'
 |  |
 |  |
  \  '-.
   '--'

Crescent moon

6 lines, 8 wide

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      /\
     /  \
    |    |
    | () |
    |    |
   /|    |\
  /_|____|_\
     /||\
    ' '' '

Rocket

9 lines, 12 wide

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          .-"""-.
        .'       '.
  .----/-----------\----.
 (    |             |    )
  '----\-----------/----'
        '.       .'
          '-...-'

Ringed planet

7 lines, 26 wide

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       _____
   ___/ o o \___
  (_____________)
     /  |  \
    /   |   \

UFO

5 lines, 17 wide

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      /\
 ____/  \____
 \          /
  \        /
  /   /\   \
 /__/    \__\

Gold star

6 lines, 13 wide

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    /\
   /  \
  | () |
  |    |
 /|    |\
/_|____|_\
   /\/\

Rocket taking off

7 lines, 10 wide

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    .-'''-.
  .'  .-'       *
 /   /
|   |      .
 \   \
  '.  '-.     *
    '-...-'

Crescent moon and stars

7 lines, 17 wide

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      /\
     /  \
     |  |
     |()|
     |  |
    /|  |\
   /_|__|_\
     /**\
    ( ** )
     \**/
      \/

Tall rocket with flame

11 lines, 11 wide

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        |
       / \
      |   |
      | O |
      |   |
     /|   |\
    / |___| \
      /|||\
     ( ||| )
   (  (   )  )
 (  (       )  )
(_______________)

Rocket taking off

12 lines, 17 wide

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```
   ^
  /_\
  |=|
  /"\
   *
```
Tiny rocket
5 lines, 5 wide
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    .-'''-.
  .'_______'.
 /___________\
|=============|
 \___________/
  '._______.'
    '-...-'

Striped planet

7 lines, 15 wide

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```
-(O)-
```
Tiny ringed planet
1 line, 5 wide
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   .-------.
 .'    .    '.
|  o  (O)     |
 '.         .'
   '-------'

Moon orbiting a planet

5 lines, 15 wide

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    _.--._
  .'  o   '.
 /  O    o  \
|  o   .   O |
 \   o    . /
  '._    _.'
     '--'

Full moon with craters

7 lines, 14 wide

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     _.--.
   .'  .-'
  /   /
 |   |      *
 |   |   .      +
  \   \
   '.  '-.   *
     '--'

Crescent moon and stars

8 lines, 17 wide

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     __      z
   .'  )       Z
  /  .'   z
 |  (
  \  '.
   '.__)

Sleepy moon

6 lines, 16 wide

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       .
      / \
_____/   \_____
'.           .'
  '.       .'
  /    .    \
 /  .'   '.  \
/.'         '.\

Big star

8 lines, 15 wide

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```
  .
-=*=-
  '
```
Star sparkle
3 lines, 5 wide
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```
.  *  .  +  .  *  .  +  .
```
Twinkling stars
1 line, 25 wide
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  *       .        +
      .        *
 .        +         .
     *        .

Starry sky

4 lines, 21 wide

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*--*
    \
     *--*---*
        |   |
        *---*

Big Dipper stars

5 lines, 13 wide

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```
  .-.
 (   )=====----- - -  -
  '-'
```
Comet
3 lines, 23 wide
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      _____
    .'     '.
   /  .---.  \
   | |     | |
   |  '---'  |
    '._____.'
   /|  [=]  |\
  / |       | \
 (  |  ___  |  )
    |_|   |_|
    [_]   [_]

Astronaut

11 lines, 16 wide

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        _____
     .-'  o  '-.
   .'___________'.
  (_o___o___o___o_)
        /   \
       /     \
      /       \
     /    o    \

UFO with a light beam

8 lines, 19 wide

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Speech bubble

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Last checked October 30, 2026 by the TextEditor.com team

A whole space movie in text

Text art can move, too. Show one drawing after another fast enough and you get a cartoon made of letters. People call this an ASCIImation.

The best known one is Star Wars. Simon Jansen redrew the film scene by scene with keyboard characters, and Wired magazine wrote about it in 1999. The spaceships, the planets and the stars are all plain text.

Why rockets are drawn standing up

A rocket is tall and thin, so it fits text art well. Each line of text holds one slice of the rocket. It gets a point at the top, a long body of | signs, fins made of / and \, and flames of * or ^ at the bottom.

Planets are harder. A circle with as many lines as columns comes out too tall, because a line of text is taller than a character is wide. Artists make planets about twice as wide as they are tall. That is why the ring of a planet is often a long line of dashes going right through the middle.

Draw your own night sky

A field of stars is the easiest space drawing. Scatter a few dots, stars, plus signs and small o letters across empty lines. Your eye reads the bigger marks as closer stars.

Keep the stars in a code block. In a normal chat the spaces between them shrink, and the stars bunch up on the left.

Start your own sky with the moon. A single ( on its own line looks like a thin crescent. Then add a rocket or a planet from this page, and fill the rest with stars.

Make your own text art

Frequently asked questions

Can I flip the rocket to fly the other way?

A standing rocket looks the same after a flip. For a rocket flying sideways, press Open and then Flip to point it left or right.

Which space drawing fits in a Discord message?

All of them fit if you press Open and then "Copy for Discord". That wraps the drawing in a code block, so every space stays in place.

Why are the planets wider than they are tall?

Text characters are about twice as tall as they are wide. A planet drawn with the same number of lines and columns looks like a tall egg, so artists stretch it sideways.

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