From a high school science class to a professional observatory, TheStarDB scales to fit every level of curiosity and every professional need.
Abstract concepts become concrete when students can interact with actual stellar data. Show stellar evolution by loading a main-sequence star, then a red giant, then a white dwarf - all rendered accurately in real time.
TheStarDB's STEN viewer is designed to run continuously on touchscreen kiosks and exhibit displays. No app store. No install. Just open a browser - Chrome, Firefox, Safari - and it runs.
/explorer.html?obj=Sgr+A*You see a bright point of light in Orion. With TheStarDB, you can look it up in seconds, see exactly what it looks like physically, and learn everything about it - its temperature, distance, mass, and spectral class.
The TheStarDB REST API gives you full access to every object in the catalog. Filter, paginate, sort. Get full physical parameters in one call. Build your own astronomy tools on top of the most comprehensive open stellar database on the web.
# Search all named G-type stars within 100 light years GET https://thestardb.org/api/v1/stars ?stellar_class=G&is_named=true&max_dist_ly=100 # Response { "count": 14, "stars": [ { "name": "Sol", "spectral_class": "G2V", "temperature": 5778, "dist_ly": 0.000016 }, { "name": "Tau Ceti", "spectral_class": "G8.5V", "temperature": 5344, "dist_ly": 11.9 }, ... ] }
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