AstroBis research dashboard

A Modern Astronomy Console

AstroBis is built as a browser-native astronomy workspace: part 3D atlas, part data dashboard, and part educational research notebook. It favours traceable public data, careful unit labels, and interactive visualisations that make scale, motion, and uncertainty visible.

Oort-scale Solar System atlas with AU ruler, heliopause, and spherical cloud shells

Mars 3D map with real surface texture, MOLA-derived terrain displacement, named areographic features, landing sites, polar layers, moons, and coordinate picking

EarthOps world map with 3D, 2D, and orbital-shell modes plus public media, satellites, debris, launches, natural events, disasters, earthquakes, and space news

CelesTrak TLE snapshots with local SGP4 propagation and night-side Earth lighting

Exoplanet archive cards plus mission, timeline, and distribution plot windows

JPL close-approach snapshots with interstellar visitor orbit context

Bright-star atlas with RA/Dec, distance shells, spectral color, H-R view, and physical proxies

Data Sources

NASA Exoplanet Archive
Composite exoplanet parameters, stellar metadata, orbit and discovery fields
JPL SBDB CAD
Near-Earth close-approach objects through 2050
JPL SBDB API
Known interstellar and hyperbolic visitor orbit elements
CelesTrak GP/TLE
ISS orbital elements propagated with SGP4
NASA EONET v3
Open natural-event feeds for the EarthOps world map
USGS Earthquake GeoJSON
Recent earthquake locations, magnitudes, depths, and timestamps
GDACS Current Disasters
Public disaster-alert feed for awareness markers
Launch Library 2
Upcoming launch windows, providers, pads, and mission summaries
Spaceflight News API
Spaceflight headlines for the EarthOps mission timeline
NASA Live / NASA+
Official public NASA live programming and mission coverage links
NASA Worldview / GIBS
Global Earth-observation imagery and science layers
NOAA nowCOAST
Public NOAA weather, ocean, coastal, watches, warnings, and forecast map services
NASA Mars Facts
Mars constants, gravity, sol length, orbit, atmosphere, and moon context
NASA Mars Trek
Mars mapping context, surface geography, and mission-oriented reference layers
NASA PDS MOLA MEGDR
Mars Global Surveyor laser-altimeter topography used for the Mars terrain displacement and hillshade
IAU / USGS Planetary Nomenclature
Named Mars surface features and coordinate references
NASA Oort Cloud
Oort Cloud AU scale and outer Solar System context
NASA APOD
Daily astronomy image and scientific context
Solar System Scope / Wikimedia
Planet texture maps where available

Method Notes

The project separates measured data from visual interpretation. Solar-system worlds use public texture maps where possible; the Mars map uses a real global texture plus a resampled NASA PDS MOLA terrain layer rather than rover-scale terrain reconstruction; exoplanet portraits are explicitly labelled as data-driven artist renders because most exoplanets are not directly resolved in visible light. ISS position is propagated from current TLE data, EarthOps event and disaster layers are public feed snapshots rather than official impact assessments, and small-body risk labels are prioritisation proxies, not official impact predictions.