Tonight Above You: Stargazing

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Walk inside the Milky Way. Fall into a black hole. Find Saturn with your phone. Make a wish on a real shooting star. Tonight, Above You turns the sky over your head into the most beautiful show on Earth — and every number in it is real. TONIGHT, ABOVE YOU • The one thing most worth seeing in your sky tonight, chosen for your place and your sky, with when and where to look • The Moon and planets from real spacecraft maps — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Viking, Cassini — turned and lit exactly as they are tonight, Saturn's rings at their true tilt • All 8,400 stars the naked eye can see, and the real Milky Way, exactly where they are right now • Make a wish: your honest chance of a shooting star in the next 15 minutes, hour by hour POINT YOUR PHONE UP • Hold your phone to the sky and follow the arrow; sonar pings quicken as you get close • Find it, and see how many of its photons just landed in your eye • Pinch to zoom in, up to 16×: the Moon shows its real face, the planets appear as a telescope shows them • Tap any light — planet, star, galaxy — and learn what it is, and which constellation it is in • Take a picture of the moment: the view with the stars and the name on it, ready to keep or share • The invisible layer: Voyager 1, the Hubble Deep Field, the black hole at the heart of our galaxy • By day, a real photograph of a clear sky with the Sun where it really is — and the stars still there • Red night vision, and the sky described aloud JOURNEYS • Walk inside the Milky Way: ESO's 360° photograph of our whole galaxy around you, to the real sounds of space • Fall into a black hole: watch gravity bend the Milky Way's light, worked out from Einstein's equations, and see how slowly your clock would tick • Through the great telescopes: twenty pictures from Hubble, James Webb and the Netherlands' LOFAR, to open full screen and zoom into • Real photographs from Hubble, ESO, NOIRLab and the Event Horizon Telescope LIVE • Sky alerts: be told when the Blaze Star (T Coronae Borealis) erupts, when a gravitational wave passes through you, or when the aurora may reach your sky • Who Earth is talking to right now, from NASA's Deep Space Network, and the Sun as it looked minutes ago • Space Station passes, a dark-sky finder, meteor showers, planets and eclipses to 2028 YOURS • Keep the nights that matter — the night you were born, a wedding, a goodbye — with the whole sky above them • Send a message toward Andromeda and follow it past the stars • Look up at the same moment as someone far away • Count meteors for the International Meteor Organization: your eyes count • Sky Wrapped: your year in light EVERY NUMBER IS REAL Every line carries a small tag — MEASURED, COMPUTED, ESTIMATED or DEBATED — and its source. Tap it to see how we know, and how sure we are. HONEST AND PRIVATE The sky is worked out on your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking. Live features stay off until you turn on Online sky, and even then no more than a position rounded to about a kilometre ever leaves your phone. For iPhone and iPad, in English and Turkish, with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets.