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NASA's tracker for when the space station is visible from where you live, with sighting alerts by email.
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Spot the Station sits in Space & Scale under Learn, filed as a minute.
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. Spot the Station is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Spot the Station without signing up for anything.
Yes. Spot the Station works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
The planetarium in a browser tab — set your location and it shows exactly what is above you right now.
Scroll outwards from a human to the observable universe, with each step making the previous one look absurd.
Live positions and finder charts for planets, comets and asteroids, updated continuously and free of clutter.
Full-resolution images from the James Webb telescope, with the explanations of what you are actually looking at.
Paste any text and it flashes one word at a time at a speed you pick, which is either speed reading or a mild trance.
Tilemap editor for small games — paint a level from a tileset, then export it straight into Godot or Unity.
Constructive journalism collected from other outlets into one free feed, so somebody else does all the sifting.
Compare image codecs side by side with a draggable split, and see precisely what each quality setting costs you.
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