Cosmic Atlas / field notes
About the atlas
Cosmic Atlas places public scientific catalogs into one continuous, physically scaled map. It is an orientation and discovery companion; source catalogs and specialist tools remain authoritative for quantitative work.
Data credits and acknowledgments
ESA / Gaia / DPAC
This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency mission Gaia, processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). Funding for DPAC has been provided by national institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.
DESI DR1
This research uses data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and participating institutions.
NASA Exoplanet Archive
Exoplanet data come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, operated by Caltech under contract with NASA.
SIMBAD / CDS
Selected object records use SIMBAD, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
OpenNGC
NGC and IC records use the community-maintained OpenNGC database under its published license.
JPL SSD / Horizons
Solar-system object and ephemeris data use NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Solar System Dynamics resources and Horizons.
NAIF
Reference frames and kernels use resources from NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF/SPICE).
Use with care
Displayed density reflects catalog selection, measurement quality, and rendering level of detail. Missing uncertainty, epoch, completeness, or distance semantics means not supplied, never zero.