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What this is, and what it is not

Deep Field gathers what the sky is doing — the news, the photographs and the schedule of what goes up next — and sets it in one place, built to be read.

Every headline, summary and photograph is credited to the agency, observatory or photographer who made it, and links straight back to the source. Anything uncredited is our own work.

Currently holding 2518 stories and 328 frames, last refreshed 00:59 UTC on 29 September 2026.

Why it looks like this

The subjects are ordered by the part of the electromagnetic spectrum they are observed in, and coloured accordingly — radio at the red end for the satellites overhead, ultraviolet at the violet end for the early universe. It is the one organising idea the site has.

Everything else follows from the photography. Observatory releases are extraordinary and nearly all of them are light on black, so the site is dark and gets out of the way.

Timestamps are UTC, because that is what an observing log uses. Type is Newsreader with real optical sizes, and IBM Plex Mono for anything that is data rather than prose.

How stories get sorted

Each subject has its own hand-built vocabulary, weighted by how decisive a term is: "event horizon" settles the question, "orbit" barely counts.

A story can land under two subjects, and often should. Anything that does not clearly belong anywhere stays untagged and runs in the main river only.

Filing a defence-budget story under Supernovae to avoid an empty field would be worse than leaving it alone, so it is left alone.

Who makes this

Dallin Buckles, Founder and Lead Developer at CantinaLabs. I built Deep Field alone as a passion project. In my spare time I enjoy astrophotography. This website, the subjects, the Atom feeds, the observing models, the maps, rocket launches, gallery and news articles are all specifically designed for lovers of science, space, and the greater universe.

Here is the simple version of who wrote what. If you see a news headline or a photograph, it belongs to whoever is credited next to it. Everything else — the writing, the tables, the numbers — was made here.

The observing tables are worked out, not measured. A table that says an object is easy in binoculars is this site's best estimate, not somebody standing outside checking. When a number is shaky, the page says so rather than pretending otherwise.

Corrections are welcome and are the fastest way to improve this — if a figure here disagrees with something you have checked, say so and it will be fixed and dated.

Deep Field is one person's side project. This website has no paywall, no newsletter capture and no tracking beyond what the ad network sets. It costs about the price of a coffee a week to run.

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