STEVKA

Stars: ESA Gaia DR3. Exoplanets: NASA Exoplanet Archive. Planets, moons and spacecraft: NASA/JPL Horizons. Asteroids and comets: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database. Satellites: CelesTrak. Mars rovers: NASA. Spacecraft 3D models: NASA 3D Resources. Shapes of small moons and comets: Phobos, Deimos and Hyperion models by NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development; Amalthea, Proteus and the nucleus of Comet Halley from P. Stooke's shape models, NASA Planetary Data System (also Thebe, Larissa); ten small moons of Saturn by P. Thomas from Cassini, NASA Planetary Data System; Phoebe by R. Gaskell, NASA Planetary Data System; Didymos and Dimorphos by NASA / Johns Hopkins APL (DART), NASA Planetary Data System. Orbits of every known moon: NASA JPL Horizons. Mission photos: NASA Image and Video Library. Chemistry: NIST, PubChem (NCBI), NUBASE2020, CODATA. Crystal lattices: J. W. Arblaster (2018), as given on Wikipedia; colours of metals: physicallybased.info (CC0). Photographs of the elements: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence under each). Galaxies: HyperLEDA, Cosmicflows-4, the 2MASS Redshift Survey, and SIMBAD (CDS). Quasars: SDSS DR16Q. Star clusters: Harris (2010), Cantat-Gaudin et al. (2020). Pulsars: ATNF Pulsar Catalogue (Manchester et al. 2005). Supernova remnants: Ranasinghe & Leahy (2022), Green (2019). Planetary nebulae: Gaia EDR3 (Ali et al. 2022), Acker et al. (1992). Galaxy clusters: MCXC (Piffaretti et al. 2011). DESI map: DESI DR1, CC BY 4.0. Black-hole images: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration / ESO, CC BY 4.0. Horizon relief: Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data) — SRTM, GMTED2010, ETOPO1 and national surveys. Ancient Earth: Scotese & Wright (2018), PALEOMAP PaleoDEMs, CC BY 4.0; fossil finds: Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Earthquakes: USGS. Storms, volcanoes and icebergs: NASA EONET. Sea ice: NSIDC Sea Ice Index, version 4 (Fetterer et al., NOAA@NSIDC). Population density: Gridded Population of the World, version 4 (CIESIN, Columbia University; NASA SEDAC), CC BY 4.0. Microworld: structures from the RCSB Protein Data Bank (CC0); each one names its own publication. The Sun now, flares, the Kp index and aurora: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Comets: NASA/JPL (Small-Body Database, Horizons). The human body: BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International. The surfaces of Mars and the Moon: NASA Solar System Treks (Viking, Mars Global Surveyor and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mosaics). The surface of the Earth: NASA GIBS (Blue Marble; the Landsat WELD mosaic; VIIRS NOAA-20; ASTER GDEM, a product of METI and NASA); names: Natural Earth. The surfaces of Mercury, Venus, Titan, Europa, Ceres, Vesta and six moons of Saturn: NASA Solar System Treks (MESSENGER, Magellan, Cassini, Galileo, Voyager and Dawn mosaics; Dawn: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA). The surfaces of Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Pluto, Charon and Triton: the U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Science Center map service (Galileo and Voyager mosaics by the USGS; Pluto and Charon: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Southwest Research Institute / Lunar and Planetary Institute; Triton: Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA / JPL-Caltech). Close-up pictures of landing sites: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University) and, on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, HiRISE (NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona) and the Context Camera (NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS), through NASA Solar System Treks. Night lights: NASA Black Marble through NASA GIBS. Bright stars: the Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA). Star motions: this research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. New points of light in the sky: the ALeRCE broker on the ZTF public alert stream (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the Fink broker on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory alert stream. How two species are related: Open Tree of Life (data CC0). Gravitational waves: LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaborations, through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (CC BY 4.0). Predicted protein structures: AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI, CC BY 4.0); protein names and functions: UniProt (CC BY 4.0). Clouds in the Sky: contains modified EUMETSAT Meteosat data 2026 (cloud mask and cloud top height, CC BY 4.0); forecast by MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); place names on the map © OpenStreetMap contributors (through NASA GIBS); satellite pictures from NASA GIBS. Ocean currents and sea salt: Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information (doi 10.48670/moi-00016). Place names on Mars and the Moon: the IAU gazetteer (USGS). Fireballs: NASA/JPL CNEOS. Fast radio bursts: the First CHIME/FRB Catalog (CHIME/FRB Collaboration 2021, doi 10.11570/21.0007). Solar wind and storms: NOAA SWPC, NASA OMNI.

Music in the films: Scott Buckley, www.scottbuckley.com.au — “The Distant Sun”, “The Spaces Between”, “She Moved Mountains”, “Unraveling”, “Shadows and Dust”, “Memories Of Stone”, “With These Hands”, “Adrift Among Infinite Stars”, “Aurora”, “Hymn to the Dawn”, “Permafrost”, “Borealis”, “Hiraeth”, “Ephemera”, “Meanwhile”, released under CC BY 4.0; the pieces are shortened.

Music in the game: Scott Buckley, www.scottbuckley.com.au — “Starfire”, “Born of the Sky”, “Eyes in the Void”, released under CC BY 4.0; the pieces are shortened.

The female body: the BodyParts3D reference body reshaped to the average proportions of adult women (ANSUR II, U.S. Army, public domain); hip bones, womb, ovaries, fallopian tubes and mammary glands from the Human Reference Atlas 3D Reference Object Library (HuBMAP Consortium), from the Visible Human Project of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, CC BY 4.0. 3D models of satellites: NASA 3D Resources.

Image credits

Milky Way: "The best Milky Way map, by Gaia" — artist's impression based on Gaia data, ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Night sky (as seen from the Solar System and in Sky): "The Milky Way panorama", ESO/S. Brunier (GigaGalaxy Zoom), licensed CC BY 4.0, resampled onto galactic coordinates. The sky in other light (Settings): 2MASS (UMass/IPAC-Caltech, NASA/NSF); H-alpha composite, Finkbeiner 2003 (WHAM, VTSS, SHASSA); IRIS/IRAS far infrared (Miville-Deschênes & Lagache 2005); Planck HFI and LFI (ESA/Planck Collaboration); Fermi LAT (NASA/DOE); all via CDS HiPS. The sky outside the Milky Way: 44,599 galaxies of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (Huchra et al. 2012, ApJS 199, 26; 2MASS: UMass/IPAC-Caltech, NASA/NSF), drawn at their own positions and coloured by redshift after T. Jarrett's 2MASS large-scale-structure map. Other galaxies are built from photographs by ESA/Hubble, ESO, NOIRLab and ESA/Webb; each galaxy's own credit is shown in its info card.