League tables for the game of probe-throwing currently underway in our solar system.
The league covers expensive hardware lob matches held between planets in the Solar System. Two dwarf planets have recently been admitted to the league and lost their first matches against league champions Team Earth.
A lovely visualisation of asteroids in our solar system.
Beautiful high resolution posters of our planetary neighbourhood.
Celestial objects ordered by size, covering a scale from one astronaut to the observable universe.
Take an interactive tour of our solar system’s many moons.
This orrery is really quite wonderful! Not only is it a great demonstration of what CSS can do, it’s a really accurate visualisation of the solar system.
A collection of short stories and essays speculating on humanity’s future in the solar system. The digital versions are free to download.
You can use Google Maps to explore the worlds of our solar system …and take a look inside the ISS.
Luke just demoed this at Codebar. It’s a lovely audio/visualisation of the solar system—a sonic orrery that you can tweak and adjust.
Hypnotic.
This is a rather lovely idea—a disc with eight rings, each marked with the position of a planet, the arrangement of which corresponds to a specific date.
Airships in the atmosphere of Venus. More plausible than it might sound at first.
A lovely visualisation that combines two of my loves: space, and the correct use of the subjunctive.
Gorgeous colour-processed images from NASA probes. I could stare at the fountains of Enceladus all day.
On 18 May 2010, the Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) Project deposited a time capsule in the vaults of datacenter, Swiss Fort Knox, in Saanen, Switzerland. It contained the decoding information for five digital file formats on media ranging from paper, microfilm and floppy discs to CDs, DVDs and USB sticks.
This consortium of institutions and universities came together “to provide practical solutions and expertise in digital preservation.”
PLANETS stands for Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services.
Another great Zooniverse project: find planets by looking for tell-tale signs of light distortion from distant stars.
This web page is half a mile wide.