Can the internet light up the night sky?
When this sky opened, it was completely dark. Every time someone writes down something they couldn’t say and tells the sky, one real star appears at its real position in the sky.
The message never leaves the writer’s device. We never receive it, so we can’t read it, store it, or share it. All that remains is the fact that something was said, as a star.
Stars light up roughly from brightest to faintest, spread across the whole sky, so the real night sky slowly fills in as more people take part.
No one owns, buys or names a star here. A star lit on this site means only that: someone lit it here.
Star data
Star positions, magnitudes and identifiers come from the HYG Database (v4.1) by David Nash / astronexus, which combines the Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues. It is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, and our processed star files are shared under the same license. Fainter stars come from UCAC4, the fourth U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog, a U.S. Government work in the public domain.