Days Since Incident
I love this list of ever-increasing timelines. All that’s missing is the time since the Carrington Event, just to remind us what could happen when the next one hits.
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Interplanetary Lobbing
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.
Eleanor Lutz - An Orbit Map of the Solar System
A lovely visualisation of asteroids in our solar system.
Rainbow spacecraft and how humanity might end (Interconnected)
I too am a member of The British Interplanetary Society and I too recommend it.
(Hey Matt, if you really want to go down the rabbit hole of solar sails, be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed of Centauri Dreams—Paul Gilster is big into solar sails!)
Solar System and Beyond Poster Set | NASA Solar System Exploration
Beautiful high resolution posters of our planetary neighbourhood.
Train of thought
Like Bastian, I’m making a concerted effort now to fly less—offsetting the flights I do take—and to take the train instead. Here’s a description of a train journey to Nottingham for New Adventures, all the way from Germany.
The Size of Space
Celestial objects ordered by size, covering a scale from one astronaut to the observable universe.
The Atlas of Moons
Take an interactive tour of our solar system’s many moons.
CodePen - Solar System 3D Animation (Pure CSS)
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.
Glittering Blue
Scroll around this massive video of a timelapse of one day’s footage from the Himawari 8 satellite in geostationary orbit around our homeworld.
The International Flag of Planet Earth
A proposed flag for the planet.
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures – Center for Science and the Imagination
A collection of short stories and essays speculating on humanity’s future in the solar system. The digital versions are free to download.
Google Maps in Space
You can use Google Maps to explore the worlds of our solar system …and take a look inside the ISS.
Jupiter Perijove 09 | Flickr
Gorgeous images from Juno’s closest approach to Jupiter.
Seeing Earth from Outer Space
A lovely interactive photo essay charting the results of what happens when evolution produces a life form that allows a planet to take selfies.
No Planes Go (Upsideclown)
A near-future tale of post-Brexit Kafkaesque isolationism in the skies.
It turned out that taking back control also meant creating an aerial deadzone. Nothing can fly in here without a Library of Alexandria’s worth of paperwork, and nothing can fly out without the same.
SolarBeat
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.
SpaceTime Coordinates Memento ~ your personal place in space by govy — Kickstarter
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.
Glittering Blue
Earth as seen on one day in 2015 from Himawari-8. Beautiful.