76 beautiful websites

Fly out through our stellar neighbourhood, one star at a time

One space image a day, explained by a working astronomer

Sixteen strange brushes and almost no control

The planet's wind, drawn as one continuous flowing sheet

An endless descent through shifting bands of colour

Click to drop a star and watch particles fall in

Two chemicals, two dials, and every pattern in nature

A sketch tool whose brushes join up your strokes

Fling paint across a white wall with your mouse

Tokyo's entire rail network, running live in 3D

One-page toys that teach by letting you try the thing

Paint with fire that keeps burning after you stop

Where the aurora will be visible in thirty minutes

Every key on your keyboard is a sound and a shape

Draw with sand, water, fire and plants and step back

What Hubble and Webb are pointed at this very minute

Press one button, hear a forest somewhere else on Earth

Write a sentence and hear the note each letter makes

Weather as painted colour fields, sliding through time

Drag your cursor through coloured smoke that swirls back

Look out of a stranger's window for as long as you like

Weather models rendered as moving air you can read

Near-live satellite imagery of storms as they form

A painting that falls forever into itself

The sequel loop: colder, stranger, equally seamless

A collage built entirely from salvaged GeoCities parts

Birds saying what birds would obviously say

Thick oil paint that smears and mixes like the real thing

Split circles into smaller circles until an image appears

Game of Life made continuous, and it grows creatures

Ride along with any NASA mission, on any date you choose

Sixty seconds in a park, filmed by whoever was there

A sealed glass ecosystem that keeps going without you

Type what is bothering you, watch it shrink into space

The planets where they actually are, right now

Turn a blurry logo into clean scalable vectors

Pour coloured sand and let it pile up in drifts

One big chart a day, usually about money

Draw walls and let a million photons find their way

Machines taken apart in animation, layer by layer

A chiptune sequencer that fits a whole song in a URL

An 1847 geometry book where colour replaces the labels

Twelve hundred nature recordings, kept free by a charity

Search the sky the way the ESA science archives see it

One statistics concept per page, all of it draggable

Design-led charts answering questions tables cannot

Scroll the internet's objects, from 1977 to 2007

Fly the whole of Mars on real orbiter mapping data

Science writing that reads like a long magazine essay

A daily puzzle page designed by people who love puzzles

Paste a spreadsheet, drag it into a real chart

News stories where the graphic is the reporting

Probability and statistics, entirely as moving pictures

Public-domain classics, typeset like they cost money

A playable argument about why societies stop cooperating

Good news redrawn as bright, very simple illustrations

Beautifully drawn strips with a very bad ending

Visual essays that argue with data instead of decorating it

Every major sky survey, stitched into one seamless view

Grant Sanderson's maths lessons, with the visuals inline

A guidebook to the places no guidebook mentions

The best interactive explainers anyone is making

Every natural history book, scanned by the world's museums

A hundred thousand old maps, zoomable to the street

Machine learning papers you can actually see working

India's national collections, digitised into one place

A maths textbook that talks back while you read it

The family tree of every popular music genre

The largest Urdu poetry archive, readable in three scripts

Download a Vermeer at a resolution you can actually print

India's arts and heritage, mapped across ten domains

Millions of museum objects, released with no restrictions

Two decades of one person reading and taking notes

The strangest things that ever fell out of copyright

A tiny turtle draws whatever code you feed it

Peer-reviewed world history, free and properly illustrated