Credits

The pictures and data this site uses, whose they are, and their licences. NASA material is used under NASA's media guidelines and implies no endorsement.

Pictures

Tarantula Nebula Spitzer 3-Color Image

• Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
• Source: PIA23647
• Licence: NASA material (NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, JPL center record, secondary creator NASA/JPL-Caltech): not copyrighted in the United States, used under NASA's media usage guidelines; no NASA logo, no endorsement implied
• Used in: /lab/0-video/: the push-in test clip and its poster

Saturn (Ultra resolution)

• Credit: Solar System Scope (INOVE), based on NASA data
• Source: 8k_saturn
• Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); Solar System Scope's textures are based on NASA elevation and imagery data
• Used in: /lab/5-model/: the planet's surface, unchanged, in planet.usdz and the still; /lab/1-journey/: the planet's surface in the rendered journey

Saturn Ring (Ultra resolution)

• Credit: Solar System Scope (INOVE), based on NASA data
• Source: 8k_saturn_ring_alpha
• Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); Solar System Scope's textures are based on NASA elevation and imagery data. Modified: averaged into one radial profile, tinted warm and cool, and cut into eight equal parts
• Used in: /lab/5-model/: the ring in planet.usdz and the still; /lab/1-journey/: the ring of particles round the band of light

NIRCam Image of the “Cosmic Cliffs” in Carina

• Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
• Source: weic2205a
• Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://esawebb.org/copyright/), credit shown in full next to the picture; no ESA/Webb logo. Modified: cropped to 3:2, resized, and for the HDR version its stars lifted above SDR white by a rule in code (tools/hdr.py), not retouched by hand or by AI
• Used in: /lab/6-hdr/: the HDR and SDR stills

Hubble sees galaxies galore (Hubble Ultra Deep Field)

• Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team
• Source: heic0406a
• Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://esahubble.org/copyright/), credit shown next to the scene; no ESA/Hubble logo. Modified: projected onto the sky behind a rendered scene, black point lifted, dimmed and faded in; not retouched by AI
• Used in: /lab/1-journey/: the far background of the rendered journey

The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and Companion Galaxy

• Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
• Source: heic0506a
• Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://esahubble.org/copyright/), credit shown next to the scene; no ESA/Hubble logo. Modified: laid as a card in a rendered galaxy plane, rotated, black point lifted, saturation reduced, borders faded, cross-faded in; not retouched by AI
• Used in: /lab/1-journey/: the galaxy the journey ends on

Data

AT-HYG (Augmented Tycho-HYG) star catalogue, magnitude 10 subset

• Credit: AT-HYG v4.0 by David Nash (astronexus.com), CC BY-SA 4.0
• Source: AT-HYG v4.0, v4.0, data/subsets/athyg_40_reduced_m10.csv.gz at commit eebe42b3552ae04e67d27ae085a8aad997b42bc0 (2026-07-26)
• Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• About the data: The maintainer's README: a combination of Tycho-2, the Hipparcos Catalog, the Yale Bright Star Catalog, the Gliese-Jahreiss Catalog and IAU star names, with distances and velocities for most stars from the Gaia mission's DR3. The site uses AT-HYG as the plan names it; it downloads nothing from the Gaia archive.
• Used in: /lab/2-sky/: every star's position, brightness and colour (public/lab/sky/stars.bin.gz, same licence)

Planetary Systems Composite Parameters table

• Credit: NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC, under contract with NASA)
• Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive pscomppars, read 2026-10-28 through the archive's TAP service
• Licence: Free to reuse with the archive's acknowledgement
• About the data: This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. The host list and the light-years shown are the app's own.
• Used in: /lab/2-sky/: the place of each planet host the app uses