space + pixels

places to go

nobody to see

If you like space, you will love this. The 2017 π Day art imagines the digits of π as a star catalogue with constellations of extinct animals and plants. The work is featured in the article Pi in the Sky at the Scientific American SA Visual blog.

menu moon solar system the sky, northern hemisphere the sky, southern hemisphere

places to go

nobody to see

Martin Krzywinski @MKrzywinski mkweb.bcgsc.ca

3.6 gigapixels / 6,733 places (2 fictional)

▲ Explore the entire moon at 100 meter/pixel resolution. Scroll, zoom, and pan with zero chance of decompression.

0.1 and 10 gigapixels / 758k asteroids 1.3k comets 28 satellites

▲ The solar system on 20 July 2019. Each of the 759,323 objects in its place.

0.1 and 10 gigapixels / 44M stars 74k deepsky 3.1k exoplanets

▲ The northern celestial hemisphere. Millions of stars and thousands of deepsky objects.

0.1 and 10 gigapixels / 69.4M stars 88k deep-sky 1.0k exoplanets

▲ The southern celestrial hemisphere. Millions of stars and thousands of deepsky objects.

realtime tracking

▲ The position of planets and key asteroids on any day.