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A calendar of every conjunction, eclipse and meteor shower coming up, with charts drawn for your own location.
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In-The-Sky.org sits in Space & Scale under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Space, deep time and the size of things. Every site here exists to give you the one thing a textbook diagram cannot: actual scale.
Yes. In-The-Sky.org is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use In-The-Sky.org without signing up for anything.
Yes. In-The-Sky.org works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Travel outwards at light speed while hearing which radio hits have reached each distance, oldest at the far edge.
Every photograph, video and audio recording NASA has released, searchable and free to use for anything.
The official live stream, which for long stretches is simply Earth turning below the space station.
Drag one slider from quantum foam to the cosmic web, with every object in between labelled at its true size.
Every plant and animal anybody has photographed and posted, mapped, with a community that will identify your mystery beetle within hours.
The wiki of a movement for owning your own website: guides, tools and real examples of people publishing on their own domains.
Step-by-step build guides for anything from a bookshelf to a plasma cutter, written by the people who actually made the thing.
Books, films, software, concerts and the web itself, archived at a scale no other institution has come close to.
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