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Credits

The photographs, films and data this site is built on, with the exact credit and licence each owner asks for.

Photographs and film

Real imagery for real things. Each piece below is shown somewhere on the site, with the changes we made to it.

Films

  • Time-lapse: the rising Sun flares behind the silhouetted rocket and its launch tower above a line of trees and golden cloud.

    Artemis II Full Moon and Sunrise at LC 39B - Timelapse

    Sunrise behind Artemis II at Launch Complex 39B, 1 Feb 2026 (time-lapse)

    Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky · Public domain (NASA) · Source

    Film. Changes: Trimmed to the sunrise, 33.13 to 40.06 s of the original (6.9 s), at 30 frames a second; scaled to 1600x900, with a 4:5 crop on the rocket for phones; re-encoded without sound.

  • The orange and white SLS rocket rises past its launch tower on a column of white fire while exhaust clouds billow across the pad.

    Artemis II Launch from OSB II Balcony - Slo Mo

    Artemis II lifts off from Launch Complex 39B, 1 Apr 2026 (slow motion)

    Credit: NASA/Brandon Hancock · Public domain (NASA) · Source

    Film. Changes: 40 to 64 s of the original slow-motion file, shown 1.5 times faster (16 s) at 30 frames a second; scaled to 1600x900, with a 4:5 crop on the rocket for phones; re-encoded without sound.

  • Video: luminous green aurora curtains with a red upper fringe ripple above the dark curve of the Earth, with stars below.

    Earth in 4K - Space Station Expedition 67-68 Edition

    Aurora from the International Space Station, Expeditions 67 and 68 (2022 to 2023)

    Credit: NASA/JSC · Public domain (NASA) · Source

    Film. Changes: 527 to 535 s of the original (8 s), cropped to leave the station's hardware out; scaled to 1600x900, with a 4:5 crop for phones; re-encoded without sound.

  • Video: the bright white hull of the Orion spacecraft at left, a dim crescent Moon at right and a tiny bright crescent Earth beside it.

    Artemis II Flight Day 6 Highlights (Includes Lunar Flyby)

    The Moon and a crescent Earth from Orion, Artemis II lunar flyby, 6 Apr 2026 (shown 10 times faster)

    Credit: NASA/JSC · Public domain (NASA) · Source

    Film. Changes: 1250 to 1330 s of the original, shown 10 times faster (8 s) at 30 frames a second; scaled to 1600x900; phones get a 4:5 crop on the Moon and Earth that leaves the spacecraft out; re-encoded without sound.

  • Video: seen from above, a rust-coloured plain slides past with a small crater, a pale rippled cliff edge and then a larger crater filled with ripples.

    Perseverance Rover's Descent and Touchdown on Mars: Onboard Camera Views

    Jezero Crater, Mars, seen from Perseverance as it descended to land, 18 Feb 2021

    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech · JPL Image Use Policy · Source

    Film. Changes: 129 to 137 s of the original (8 s, real time), cropped inside the descent camera's window to leave out its black surround and progress graphic, 16:9 for desktop and 4:5 for phones; scaled and re-encoded without sound.

  • Video: a slow drift across thousands of galaxies, some stretched into glowing arcs, around a bright six-pointed star.

    Pan of Webb's First Deep Field (NIRCam Image)

    Webb's First Deep Field, galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, released 12 Jul 2022

    Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI · CC BY 4.0 · Source

    Film. Changes: 1.2 to 9.2 s of the original (8 s), resampled from 25 to 30 frames a second; scaled to 1600x900, with a 4:5 crop for phones; re-encoded without sound (the original's music is not covered by its licence); the full credit and licence burned in along the left edge, centred from top to bottom.

Photographs

  • A Falcon 9 rises above its launch tower through white exhaust clouds under a pale blue sky.

    Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launches to International Space Station

    File imagery: Crew-9, 28 September 2024. Falcon 9 lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40.

    Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber · Public domain (NASA) · Source

    Photograph. Changes: NASA-hosted responsive JPEG at 1600 pixels wide, downloaded unchanged. Full frame, no local crop, overlay, filter or synthesis.

  • A Falcon Heavy climbs on a bright exhaust plume, with palms in the foreground and its launch tower below.

    Launching to a Metal-Rich Asteroid

    File imagery: Psyche, 13 October 2023. Falcon Heavy lifting off from Launch Complex 39A.

    Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani · Public domain (NASA) · Source

    Photograph. Changes: NASA-hosted responsive JPEG at 1600 pixels wide, downloaded unchanged. Full frame, no local crop, overlay, filter or synthesis.

  • The light of an Electron launch rises above a water tower and an illuminated exhaust cloud at night.

    New NASA Safety System Enables Rocket Lab Launch From Wallops

    File imagery: Virginia is for Launch Lovers, 24 January 2023. Electron lifting off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops.

    Credit: NASA/Danielle Johnson · Public domain (NASA) · Source

    Photograph. Changes: NASA-hosted responsive JPEG at 1600 pixels wide, downloaded unchanged. Full frame, no local crop, overlay, filter or synthesis.

  • A Vulcan rocket lifts off between the lightning towers of Space Launch Complex 41 in a night launch.

    NASA Kennedy Top 24 Stories of 2024

    File imagery: Peregrine Mission One, 8 January 2024. Space Launch Complex 41 during a Vulcan launch.

    Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett · Public domain (NASA) · Source

    Photograph. Changes: NASA-hosted responsive JPEG at 1600 pixels wide, downloaded unchanged. Full frame, no local crop, overlay, filter or synthesis.

  • A dark blue-grey field crossed by a pale diagonal band of scattered sunlight, with Earth a single tiny bright point inside it, just right of centre.

    Pale Blue Dot Revisited

    Earth from about 6 billion km: Voyager 1's view of 14 Feb 1990, reprocessed by NASA/JPL in 2020. False colour; the bands are sunlight scattered in the camera.

    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech · JPL Image Use Policy · Source

    Photograph. Changes: Cropped to a 2400 by 2400 pixel square around Earth from the 5230 by 5175 original (PIA23645), scaled to 1200 by 1200 and encoded as WebP at quality 90; the page draws a thin ring and the word Earth around the dot.

Data

Each source's credit line, word for word. Whether each one is live right now is on How we source.

Used on the site

  • Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs)Launch data: The Space Devs (Launch Library 2)Factual data, credited
  • CelesTrakOrbital data: CelesTrak / US Space ForceFactual data, credited
  • NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics and CNEOSData: NASA/JPLFactual data, credited

Planned

Acknowledgements

  • Typefaces: Geist and Geist Mono by The Geist Project Authors, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.