SkyMapper

The SkyMapper @kickstarter.com continues after a successful campaign! You haven't missed your chance. Late Pledges are live, so you can still secure your rewards and support the future of decentralized astronomy. www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Built for two years. Watching the changing universe for nearly 22. @NASA's Swift Observatory has ended science operations after helping astronomers catch gamma-ray bursts and other fleeting cosmic events. When the universe changes, being ready to observe matters. science.nasa.gov/missions/swi...

Observation of the week: 87 Sylvia, spotted by our SkyKeepers. This potato-shaped asteroid has two moons: Romulus and Remus. SkyMapper CEO Franck Marchis led the team that discovered its triple-system nature in 2005, the first ever identified.

What would you observe if the whole sky were within reach? 🌌🔭 Andromeda. Orion. Saturn. A comet. A distant supernova. SkyViewer puts telescopes around the world at your fingertips. Your location doesn’t have to limit your view of the universe. skymapper.io/skyviewer

A bigger SkyMapper network starts with the ability to build at scale. 🌍 Our partnership with HansaMatrix brings SkySphere another step closer to scalable production, helping us expand the network companies, researchers and communities can build on.

Did you know SkyMapper has a Telegram community? Come talk astronomy, share your observations, get help using the SkyMapper network and meet SkyKeepers from around the world. 🔭 Join the conversation 👇 t.me/skymapper_co...

Satellite trails ruining your astrophotography? 🛰️🔭 We built SatSafe, a free tool that predicts satellite crossings and helps you find better observing windows. Less interference. More useful data. 🌌 satsafe.skymapper.io

🔭 Observation of the Week: Triangulum Galaxy (M33) Want to see a galaxy 2.7 million light-years away? Open SkyMapper LiveView, select a telescope in Europe or North America, calibrate, choose M33 and observe for 5–10 minutes. 🌌

From a classroom in Chile to the International Space Station. 🇨🇱🛰️ SkyMapper took an exciting step toward bringing hands-on astronomy to more schools and communities across Chile. The next generation of sky explorers starts here. 🌌 skymapper.io/blog/skymapp...

Alien technology hidden in Moon dust? 🌕🔬 It sounds like science fiction, but lunar regolith could preserve billions of years of Galactic history. Join SkyMapper CEO @allplanets.bsky.social and Dr. Lewis Pinault on a special #SETILive to explore the idea. 📅 Oct 9 | 2 PM PDT

The sky doesn’t stop when you stop looking. 🌌 SkySphere captured this incredible aurora over Finland on October 4, keeping watch as the sky came alive overhead. This is exactly why we built SkySphere: to catch what happens when you’re not looking. 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xco2...

The Moon is still changing before our eyes 🌕 Join SkyMapper CEO @allplanets.bsky.social and Dr. Tyler M. Powell on #SETILive to explore what a newly formed crater can teach us about lunar impacts and the Moon’s evolving surface. Oct 8 | 2:30 PM PDT 🔴

A supernova is fading in NGC 7331. Want to see it for yourself? 🌌 SN 2026aaiv, a Type Ia supernova discovered on September 1, was successfully detected by John K Bradley’s telescope on September 28. Open SkyViewer, find an available telescope, and see what you can capture. 🔭

October skies are packed. 🌌 Saturn reaches opposition. M33 takes center stage in the north, while the Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucanae shine in the south. And two meteor showers join the lineup. ☄️ Here’s what the SkyMapper network will be watching this month. 👀 skymapper.io/blog/october...

Students at Mary Graham Liceo made history by connecting with the ISS through the Chilean-NASA ARISS program. 🇨🇱� We also shared SkyMapper’s vision with Chile’s science, space and education community. Here’s to connecting more students across Chile with the sky.

Starship Flight 14 is preparing to carry Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time. 🚀🛰️ As more satellites enter LEO, knowing what’s overhead becomes increasingly important. More traffic. More reason to keep watching the sky. spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/28/l...

SkySphere’s object detection is getting smarter. In this test from Ithaca, NY, drone detection is integrated directly into the SkySphere Desktop App, automatically identifying detected objects and surfacing them as events. www.youtube.com/watch?v=avtE...

A rocky world in the habitable zone has an atmosphere. 🌎 What could LHS 1140 b tell us about potentially habitable worlds beyond our solar system? Join @allplanets.bsky.social and lead author Dr. Collin Cherubim on #SETILive today at 2:30 pm PDT. 🔴

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted a rare new scar on the Moon. 🌕💥 The McGetchin crater is 728 feet wide, formed by an impact scientists estimate happens only about once a century. Even the Moon is still changing. Keep watching the sky. science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

160,000 light-years away. Observed from South Carolina. Captured by a telescope in Australia. 🌌 The Tarantula Nebula is a vast stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud. One observer. Another continent. A whole other galaxy.

SkyMapper CEO and @setiinstitute.bsky.social Director of Citizen Science @allplanets.bsky.social took the stage at Avalanche Summit NYC to talk about how SkyMapper is using Avalanche to build verifiable infrastructure for astronomical observations in the age of AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwr0...

100,000+ blocks and counting. The SkyMapper blockchain just crossed 100,000 blocks on Avalanche, helping build a verifiable history for observations across the network. Web3 is the infrastructure. The observations are what matter. The sky is just beginning and we're growing strong.

If you can’t trust the data, you can’t trust the science. As AI makes fake observations easier to create, provenance matters more than ever. At Avalanche Summit NYC, our CEO @allplanets.bsky.social explained how blockchain can help make astronomical data verifiable from the moment it’s captured.

The Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference hosted by @celestronuniverse.bsky.social brings together experts working at the intersection of astronomy, space surveillance, and optical technology. We're proud to be part of the conversation. 🌌 x.com/Skymapperspa...

SkyReserve lets you choose a target and exposure time, then automatically finds a SkyMapper telescope to capture it. This 15-minute view of the Helix Nebula was captured remotely by the LasCruces-Odyssey-Beddo telescope. A global network of telescopes. You pick the target.

Cloudy where you are? Look somewhere else. 🌌 SkyViewer gives you direct access to telescopes across the SkyMapper network. Observe targets, run observations, and see results from around the world. One dashboard. A global sky. skymapper.io/skyviewer

A suspected drone over Lithuania turned out to be a flock of birds and required a NATO jet visual identification. Detection alone isn’t enough. Differentiation matters. SkySphere adds 180° optical coverage and automated drone detection. Plug it in. Watch the sky. news.sky.com/story/drone-...

New Zealand → New Mexico → Andromeda. 🌌 SkyKeeper Ian Transom observed M31 remotely using a SkyMapper telescope 12,000+ km away. One observer. One distant telescope. One shared sky. This is a global observation network.

The first 200 SkySphere Founder Edition units are now available through DePIN House. 24/7 sky monitoring, on-device AI, and verifiable observations from your own node. Reserve yours with a 15% deposit. depinhouse.shop/collections/...

You can’t discover what you’re not looking at. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will scan huge areas of the sky for what targeted observations might miss. At SkyMapper, we share the idea: better coverage builds a better map. skymapper.io/blog/nancy-g...

September skies are packed. Neptune reaches opposition. Venus hits peak brightness. Andromeda takes over northern skies, while Sculptor shines in the south. Mars even drops in on Castor and Pollux. Here’s what we will be watching this month. 🌌 skymapper.io/blog/septemb...

Two satellites. One observation. 🛰️🛰️ SkyKeeper Nicola Meneghelli’s eVscope 2 caught RASCOM-QAF 1R and EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS moving across the same field of view on Sep 1. Both are geostationary telecom satellites serving Africa, orbiting roughly 36,000 km above Earth.

Going live this Thursday. SkyMapper Founder & CEO @allplanets.bsky.social joins In The Trenches to tackle a big question: Can Web3 support science in a meaningful way? Tune in live on YouTube. Thursday | 6 PM UTC / 8 PM CET Set a reminder 👇 www.youtube.com/live/f8UhRho...

Moon? Planet? Exosatellite? SkyMapper CEO @allplanets.bsky.social sits down with lead author Kevin Hoy on another #SETILive by @setiinstitute.bsky.social to unpack a remarkable discovery: the first plausible detection of a moon-like object beyond our Solar System. www.youtube.com/live/OKBnlby...

SkyMapper’s Request for Observation (RFO) system is now fully operational for small Solar System bodies, transient events, and custom targets. Pick a target. Let the network observe.

SkyMapper's first telescope in West Africa is now online in Côte d'Ivoire. Another SkyKeeper. Another view of the sky. Another step toward truly global coverage. Welcome to the network, Côte d'Ivoire 🌐

One SkySphere. Three very different things happening overhead. Aurora over Jyväskylä, Finland, captured by SkyKeeper Petri Tikannen on August 18. Look closely: a bright meteor crosses at 0:04, followed by an airplane at 0:06. Keep watching. SkySphere does.