Visual Data Cosmos

Stars: Yale BSC5 (Hoffleit & Warren 1991) ↗ · Galaxies & cluster members: SDSS DR17 ↗ · Deep galaxy survey: DESI DR1 (DESI Collaboration 2025) ↗ via Astro Data Lab ↗
Globular clusters: Harris 1996 ↗ · Local Group: McConnachie 2012 ↗ · M31 clusters: RBC v5 ↗ · M33 clusters: San Roman+ 2010 ↗
Magellanic Clouds: Bica+ 2008 ↗ · M87 globulars: Strader+ 2011 ↗ · M81: Perelmuter & Racine 1995 ↗ · M51: Chandar+ 2016 ↗
M101: Simanton+ 2015 ↗ · M82: Lim+ 2013 ↗ · Centaurus A: Woodley+ 2007 ↗ · Sombrero: Spitler+ 2006 ↗ · Antennae: Whitmore+ 2010 ↗ · M101 H II regions: Hodge+ 1990 ↗
Cluster member stars: Gaia Collaboration 2018 ↗ · Globular-cluster star fields: ESA Gaia DR3 ↗
Extragalactic planet candidates: Di Stefano+ 2021 (M51-ULS-1b) ↗ · An+ 2004 (PA-99-N2) ↗ · Dai & Guerras 2018 (RX J1131−1231) ↗
Citizen-science planet candidates: ExoFOP-TESS Community TOIs (NASA / Caltech-IPAC) ↗ · Brown dwarfs (incl. Backyard Worlds ↗): Kirkpatrick+ 2021 ↗
Notable galaxies — positions, distances & morphology: NASA/IPAC NED ↗ · Literature links: NASA ADS ↗ · SIMBAD (CDS) ↗
Surface imagery: Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0) ↗ · Moon & dwarf-planet mosaics: NASA/JPL/USGS via Stellarium ↗
Local Volume: Karachentsev+ 2013 ↗ · Open clusters: Cantat-Gaudin+ 2020 (Gaia) ↗
Exoplanets: NASA Exoplanet Archive ↗ · Pulsars: ATNF (Manchester+ 2005) ↗ · Quasars: SDSS DR17 ↗
SNRs: Green 2019 ↗ · Planetary nebulae: Acker+ 1992 ↗ · GW events: GWTC / GWOSC ↗ · Deep survey: HETDEX — Mentuch Cooper+ 2023 ↗
All-sky galaxies: 2MRS — Huchra+ 2012 ↗ · FRBs: CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 ↗ · Euclid z>7 quasars: Yang+ 2026 (Euclid Collaboration) ↗ · MoM-z14: Naidu+ 2025 ↗ · 3I/ATLAS: NASA / MPC ↗ · Asteroids: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database ↗
Source code — open source (MIT): github.com/liakomedia/visual-data-cosmos ↗