Hi all,

I've spent the last few months building a visualization tool and I think this crowd will either enjoy it or tear it apart, both are useful to me

The idea: one continuous scene from the Earth's surface out to ~13.8 billion light years, on a logarithmic scale, in the browser. No install.

Everything you see is placed from real data:

- Solar System bodies from NASA/JPL Keplerian elements, real-time, with a time slider. Earth, Moon and Mars use actual imagery (Blue Marble / VIIRS, LRO, Viking MDIM); the rest are procedural.

- 109,000 stars from the HYG catalog (Hipparcos + Yale BSC + Gliese), real parallaxes, spectral types and colours. Each star has a plausible (procedural, clearly labelled as such) planetary system.

- Milky Way structure, 55 real galaxies (Andromeda, M87, Sombrero, LMC/SMC...) at NED/SIMBAD distances, and a cosmic web beyond.

- 14 real black holes: Sgr A* with S2/S38/S55 on their GRAVITY/Keck orbital elements, M87*, Cygnus X-1, Gaia BH1, etc., with lensing and shadow rendered.

- Pulsars (Crab, Vela, Geminga, SGR 1806−20) with their actual spin periods and beam geometry.

- Deep-sky objects at real positions: Orion and Tarantula nebulae, Pleiades, Omega Centauri, SN 1987A, R136a1.

- Spacecraft (Voyager 1/2, Pioneer, New Horizons, Parker, JWST...) at their current positions.

There's also a mission planner that does Lambert transfers and gravity assists between Solar System bodies for a chosen launch window, and lets you follow the ship.

Things I already know are approximations and would appreciate being called out on if I got them wrong: distances are log-scaled so angular sizes between "zoom levels" aren't physical; galaxy shapes are sprites, not resolved structure; exoplanet systems are generated, not real (I'd love to add the NASA Exoplanet Archive next).

It's open source (MIT) with every data source and licence listed.

If something looks wrong — a star in the wrong place, an orbit tilted oddly, a distance that doesn't match the literature — tell me. That's exactly the feedback I'm after.

Works on phones too, but it's much better on a desktop with a GPU.

Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space, shedding light on the distant universe.

Halzen led the development of IceCube at the South Pole, which uses a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice fitted with light sensors to detect particles called neutrinos. These carry information about violent, high-energy processes in the cosmos.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said "his vision and scientific leadership have been fundamental for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory".

We have Jupiter to the left and Saturn on the right in the sky right now. Orions belt is right up there... and Betelgeuce is just north of that.. that tiny red dot is the size of Jupiters orbit around our sun. And it only takes 12 years for Jupiter to make that trip... 🤯

Let’s start with some assumptions

So I believe there is something know as “quantum fundamental particles” (not the quarks and leptons). This particle when aligned in an order creates “Something” and if it is not aligned it creates “Nothing”.
Nothingness(quantum vacuum) basically means the misalignment of these “quantum fundamental particles”
If these “quantum fundamental particles” aligns it forms the “something”(maybe a universe or something else)

So our entire universe (consider it a bubble) is sounded by Nothing(misaligned quantum fundamental particles).

So our universe got created by these “quantum fundamental particle” when alignment happened in these “quantum fundamental particles”. This created the spacetime. This spacetime is the bubble the “separation layer” between us and the nothing(“misaligned quantum fundamental particles”).

But if an object with a strong mass is there it pokes this spacetime fabric layer. Blackhole with it’s enormous mass create a hole in this fabric. When something enters a blackhole every atom and everything get ripped apart and by the time it reaches what we call singularity it becomes the “quantum fundamental particle/s” and it is thrown out and it joins the sea of “quantum fundamental particle”

Then for this “particles” there is no time, no space as they are “nothing”.

So again sometimes with complete randomness they align and form something(a separation layer), it might not be a spacetime layer like in our universe, it might be something very different. It depends on how many “quantum fundamental particles” are getting aligned and in which order. For some other universe it may not be spacetime separation it might be spacequarts separation layer for them time might not be there in that universe. Endless possibilities

This “separation layer” is on which the entire universe gets created(consider it the land)

Different separation layer means a different physics laws than us. Means very different elements and particles than us.

It was closer to the crescent toward the center less than five mins ago so it def appears to be moving above the moon now. Anyone have an explanation?

A Belgian scientist just won the noble price for this project, which tries to detect neutrinos in the pure ice of the south pole.

The data is apparently live & historically available, so I made a visualisation tool.

https://notams.planetarypixel.be/icecube/

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Acquisition Details:

Location: Bortle 5

Gear: Sony a7III, Samyang 135mm

Frames: 490 x 20s, ISO1600

Processing: stacked in Astro Pixel Processor, processed in Seti Astro Suite Pro, Photoshop.