space

All major meteor showers, as seen from space

Maps / meteor, space

There are a lot of meteoroids circling around in space. Ian Webster visualized…
Explore the stars with this interactive Star Mapper

Maps / Jan Willem Tulp, space

Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, produced the ESA…
One-year time-lapse of Earth

Maps / Earth, NASA, space, time-lapse

Time-lapse from space by NASA:
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the…
Interconnectedness of the galaxies

Network Visualization / galaxies, space

A group of researchers are studying how all the galaxies in the universe…
All known planets outside our solar system

Maps / exoplanets, Jan Willem Tulp, space

Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with Visualized, shows all known exoplanets (currently 1,942…
Tour of a million stars

Maps / space, stars

The Online Star Register takes you through a delightful view of a million…
Pale Blue Dot motion graphic

Infographics / Carl Sagan, Earth, space

Joel Somerfield created this motion graphic to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot monologue.…
Scale model of the Solar System

Data Art / scale, space

In most depictions of the Solar System, planets are drawn big enough to…
If the Moon were one pixel in size

Infographics / scale, space

Somehow these space-in-perspective graphics and interactives never get old. I guess the size…
Journey to Pluto

Infographics / NASA, New York Times, Pluto, space

The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 and is set to…
Really slow speed of light

Maps / scale, space

The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…
Asteroid database

Data Sources / asteroids, space

Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…
Holiday lights from space

Maps / lights, NASA, space

You’ve likely seen the classic globe image that shows Earth at night. It’s…
Friends in Space

Network Visualization / Accurat, space

Part celebration of Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman to fly into space,…
Earth-orbiting satellites, all of them

Statistical Visualization / Quartz, satellites, space

David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz for Quartz visualized the satellites orbiting Earth. There’s…
Interactive documentary takes you through space and orbits

Maps / Google, space, video

Impressive work in A Spacecraft for All:
This Chrome Experiment follows the unlikely…
What separates here from there

Infographics / New Scientist, physics, space

New Scientist quickly covers three theories of space and time in an informational…
Searching for other Earths

Maps / Kepler, space

In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous…
Planet and moon resizer

Infographics / interactive, space

It can be difficult to imagine the scale of planets and moons, because…
Earth’s skies with Saturn’s rings

Visualization / space

Illustrator Ron Miller imagined what Earth’s skies would look like if we had…