Image credits
The planets, moons and deep-sky objects in Krillion Space are drawn from real spacecraft and telescope images. We resized them, and filled the polar areas the spacecraft never photographed. Thank you to the teams who made them public.
Planets and moons
- Earth – NASA Visible Earth, Goddard Space Flight Center (Blue Marble)
- Moon – NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)
- Mars – USGS / NASA / JPL (Viking colour mosaic)
- Ceres – NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA (Dawn) · tinted from greyscale
- Jupiter – NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute (Cassini)
- Saturn's rings – NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute (Cassini) · reduced to a colour profile
- Titan – NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona (Cassini) · tinted from greyscale
- Triton – NASA / JPL-Caltech / Lunar & Planetary Institute (Voyager 2)
- Pluto – NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI (New Horizons)
Deep space
- Pleiades – NASA / JPL-Caltech (Spitzer Space Telescope)
- Orion Nebula – NASA and C.R. O'Dell (Rice University) (Hubble)
- Ring Nebula – The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI / NASA)
- Eta Carinae – Jon Morse (University of Colorado) and NASA (Hubble)
- Large Magellanic Cloud – NASA / JPL-Caltech / STScI (Spitzer)
- Andromeda Galaxy – NASA / JPL-Caltech (GALEX)
Other bodies are painted from their real colours. NASA images are generally not copyrighted; use here does not imply NASA endorsement.
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