TheGodSky
Credits & sources
Everything on this site is built from real, verifiable sources. Here is exactly where each piece comes from.
Photography
All telescope and spacecraft photography on this site is from NASA and is in the public domain. Images are cropped and tone-graded to suit the design; the underlying data is unaltered.
- Aurora australis from the ISSNASA / ISS Crew Earth Observations (SVS 30179)
- Aurora australis background clip (home page)NASA / Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS 30179)
- The Cosmic Cliffs, Carina NebulaNASA / STScI — Webb NIRCam
- The Orion Nebula in infraredNASA / JPL-Caltech
- The Southern Ring NebulaNASA / STScI — Webb
- The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complexNASA / JPL-Caltech / WISE
- The heart of the Lagoon NebulaNASA / Hubble
- The full Moon from Apollo 11NASA / Apollo 11
Photographs published with articles
Each article's photograph carries the credit line supplied by the source it came from, and is used on that source's terms. Astronomy Picture of the Day images are not all public domain — some stay the copyright of the photographer or observatory named in their credit.
Software
- astronomy-engineDon Cross — MIT licence. Computes every planetary position, rise and set time, moon phase and eclipse circumstance on this site.
Astronomical data
Planetary positions, rise and set times, moon phases and eclipse timings are computed by our own engine and verified against NASA JPL Horizons data.
Place names & time zones
City names, coordinates and historical time zones come from GeoNames, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Typefaces
Fraunces, Noto Sans, Noto Serif and IBM Plex Mono, all under the SIL Open Font License.