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A Billion Star Map of the Milky Way

Ben Schmidt has published an interactive map of the Milky Way which plots the location of around one billion stars. As well as being an incr...

In a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Today NASA has released the first images captured by the James Webb observatory. These include incredible pictures of the SMACS 0723 cluster...

Mars & Moon Globes

Like lots of other developers I've been having a lot of fun playing with Mapbox's new 3D globe view. The new globe projection option...

Space Junk

In November Russia fired a missile at one of its own satellites, exploding it into over 1,500 pieces of large orbital debris and hundreds of...

A Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse

Tonight, beginning at around 10.30pm (EDT), you will be able to watch a full lunar eclipse. On May 15th the sun, moon and Earth will align. ...

Earth Rise

I'm sure that one day - a long time from now - space colonists will wake on the Moon to watch the Earth rise over the Sea of Tranquility...

The Mars Rover Tracking Map

Yesterday NASA's Perseverance rover landed successfully on Mars. NASA's 2020 Mars mission is to examine the geology of Mars looking...

Colonizing the Planets

One of the world's most popular interactive maps is the True Size Of ... , which is a fun tool for comparing the size of different count...

Don't Miss the Eclipse

Witnessing the 1999 total eclipse in Northern France was one of the most memorable experiences in my life. It would have been even better if...

Changes to the Black Marble

NASA's new composite satellite map of the Earth shows the distribution of artificial lights around the world. The so called 'Black M...

The Ever Changing World at Night

The lights are going on all over India. A lot of them. If you compare NASA's new nighttime map of the Earth with the 2012 map you can se...

The 2016 Night Light Map

NASA has released a new composite map of nighttime satellite images of the Earth. The map is made up of the best cloud-free satellite images...

Earth From Space - The Sequel

Earlier this week Explore the Earth with Tim Peake was released. This interactive map features a series of beautiful images of our planet ta...

The New World Atlas of Light Pollution

Only 12% of Europe is not affected by light pollution and because most Europeans live within the 88% of Europe which is affected by light po...

Messenger's Mapping of Mercury

Between 2011 and 2015 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft orbited Mercury, studying the planet's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic...

The Solar Eclipse Map

The Solar Eclipse Finder is an Esri map that displays the path of past and future solar eclipses for any location on Earth. The tool couldn...