Starlight Cosmos
The universe, readable.
Live NASA data, Webb's deep fields, asteroids passing closer than the Moon — wired to knowledge cards on the stars, the elements they forge, and the laws they obey. Every card ships with prompts to explore, so the cosmos becomes something you think with, not just look at.
One entry, three views
Deep Field
Galaxies, nebulae, and Webb's first images — pulled from NASA's open image library, refreshed daily.
EnterClose Approach
Near-Earth asteroids passing this week, with the mining-economics lens nobody else gives you.
EnterKnowledge
Deep cards on stars, metals, fusion, and the laws of the universe — each with prompts to explore.
EnterAstronomy picture of the day2026-06-11
The Mermaid Nebula Supernova Remnant
Could the Little Mermaid turn into stardust instead of seafoam? It would seem so in this beautiful nebula. The featured image shows the Mermaid Nebula, also known as the Betta Fish Nebula, which is part of the G296.5+10.0 Supernova Remnant. The blue color visible here originates from doubly ionized oxygen (OIII), while the deep red is emitted by hydrogen gas. Estimated to be located a few thousand light-years away and about 10,000 years old, this nebula w…
© Data acquisition: Sy Ming Wong; Processing: Guangyan Gao Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) · NASA APOD
From the knowledge library
All 19 cardsAsteroid
16 Psyche
A ~226 km metal-rich world — possibly the exposed core of a shattered protoplanet. NASA's Psyche spacecraft arrives in 2029 to find out what it actually is.
Open cardLaw
Spectroscopy — How Stars Tell Us Their Secrets
Every element has a spectral barcode. Reading starlight revealed what stars are made of, found helium before Earth did, and proved the universe expands.
Open cardMission
James Webb Space Telescope
A 6.5 m gold-coated infrared eye at L2 with 344 single-point failures that all worked. It found the early universe surprisingly mature — and reads exoplanet air.
Open cardElement
Water Ice — The Oil of Space
Water is propellant, shielding, and life support in one molecule. The near-term asteroid-mining business case is volatiles for in-space refueling — not platinum for Earth.
Open cardGalaxy
Andromeda (M31)
The nearest large spiral, a trillion stars, 2.5 million light-years out — and the long-promised collision with us may actually be a coin flip.
Open cardElement
Gold
Forged in neutron-star collisions, delivered to Earth's crust by late impacts. Gold's scarcity is an astrophysical accident — all of it ever mined fits in a ~22 m cube.
Open cardPrompts to explore
Every card carries prompts designed to be pasted into any AI agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. The cosmos as training ground for systems thinking.
Gravity & Orbits
“Delta-v, not distance, prices a space mission — some asteroids are cheaper to reach than the Moon's surface. What's the delta-v analog in your business: the real cost metric hiding behind the intuitive one?”
Spectroscopy
“Spectroscopy turned starlight from scenery into a queryable database. What stream of data are you currently treating as scenery?”
Platinum-Group Metals
“Run the supply-elasticity trap: returning 100 tons of platinum would move the price how much? Build the demand curve before believing any trillion-dollar asteroid headline.”
Next launchesvia Launch Library 2
Long March 5 | TJSW-25
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Launch SuccessfulHASTE | Curveball
Rocket Lab
Payload DeployedFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-44
SpaceX
Launch SuccessfulH3-30 | H3-30 Test Flight
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Go for LaunchFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-54
SpaceX
Go for Launch
Built in the open
Starlight Cosmos is the experience layer of an open system: a production engine with agents and MCP servers for space data, a curated directory of cosmos AI resources, and a knowledge graph. Every card here is designed to become an agent-readable MCP resource.