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Last updated: October 9, 2026

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Ultraviolet sky imagery

Work
The full sky in the ultraviolet
Author
Brice Ménard (2026), using data from GALEX and Swift-UVOT (NASA), FIMS/SPEAR (KASI), TD-1 (ESRO), Planck and Gaia (ESA)
Source
menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Changes
Cropped to a horizontal band and recoloured to a cyan duotone for the landing page background; star positions and brightness from two high-latitude regions were also extracted to draw the star field behind the site.