Credits and data
Nothing in a Cosmoment artwork is guessed. This is the data each layer is built from, and who made it.
Cosmoment is not endorsed by NASA, ESA or any data provider.
- Moon and planets
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Positions from the planetary ephemeris DE421 of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Folkner, Williams and Boggs, 2009), computed with Skyfield by Brandon Rhodes.
The Moon's surface is a photograph by Christopher Granabetter, lit again for the phase of your minute.
- Stars
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The Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues. Credit: ESA. Read through the Big Sky Catalog by Steve Berardi.
- Milky Way
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Deep Star Maps 2020. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC.
- Nebulae, clusters and galaxies
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Positions, sizes and types: OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shapes of galaxies: EFIGI, Baillard et al. 2011, Astronomy & Astrophysics 532, A74.
These objects are drawn from images of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (CC BY 4.0), with the stars removed and the colours set again for display:
- Crab Nebula (M 1) NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble). Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
- Lagoon Nebula (M 8) ESO. 370-million-pixel starscape of the Lagoon Nebula
- Eagle Nebula (M 16) ESO. The Eagle Nebula
- Omega Nebula (M 17) ESO. The star formation region Messier 17
- Trifid Nebula (M 20) ESO. The Trifid Nebula
- Great Orion Nebula (M 42) Christopher Granabetter. Photograph, stars removed and recoloured by Cosmoment
- Whirlpool Galaxy (M 51) NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Out of this whirl: The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and companion galaxy
- Ring Nebula (M 57) NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O’Dell (Vanderbilt University). Hubble image of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57)
- Bode's Galaxy (M 81) NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: A. Zezas and J. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). Hubble photographs grand design spiral galaxy M81
- Cigar Galaxy (M 82) NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF). The magnificent starburst galaxy Messier 82
- Sombrero Galaxy (M 104) NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Hubble mosaic of the majestic Sombrero Galaxy
- Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) ESO. Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit. The Carina Nebula imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope
- Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) ESA, NASA, HEIC and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Dying star creates fantasy-like sculpture of gas and dust
- Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) ESO. The Helix Nebula*
- Constellations
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Lines and names: d3-celestial © Olaf Frohn, after IAU/Sky & Telescope.
- Terrain
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The skyline is produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
The far ranges are produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-30. The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-90.
- Places
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Place names: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0. Time zones: timezone-boundary-builder, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Typefaces
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Mona Sans by GitHub and Geist Mono by Vercel, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.