◇ Magna Earth · Newsroom

The sky, reported live.

Fast radio bursts, gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts, neutrinos, optical transients and solar events — surfaced as human-readable stories the moment they arrive, laid over a live satellite map of Earth.

Live sky map · 72-hour timeline · instrument register
How it works

One page, the whole sky

No account, no queue to build — the newsroom loads live and updates itself. Scroll from the live Earth map into the sky, then into the instruments watching it.

Live Earth map, first

GOES-East GeoColor imagery every 10 minutes, active wildfires, and a 6-hour scrubber — the page's lead story, before you even reach the sky.

A live sky map

A Mollweide projection of the last 72 hours of transient events, laid over the real stellar background, with a scrolling multimessenger timeline underneath.

Instruments, named

A live register of every real data feed — CHIME/FRB, NASA DONKI, IceCube, LIGO/Virgo — with an explorer for specific lenses and a standing watch on known targets.

Inside the Newsroom

What's actually there

A daily lead story, secondary kickers, and active alerts from Earth — all synthesized into plain language, all sourced back to the instrument that saw it first.

Lead + Kickers
The daily lead
One story leads the page — an FRB, a gravitational wave, a gamma-ray burst, a solar event, or an active alert from Earth — with three secondary stories from the same 72-hour window.
From Earth
Active alerts, folded in
CRITICAL and WARNING alerts from Earth's own alert system surface alongside the sky stories — the newsroom reads the whole field, not just deep space.
Explore + Watch
Lenses and standing watches
Filter the sky by lens — All Sky, Hercules Cone, Wow! Locus, Local Group, Galactic Plane, Multimessenger — and check in on a short list of standing-watch targets.
Where the picture comes from

Real instruments, named plainly

Every story on the page traces back to a named catalog or observatory — not a black box.

Fast radio bursts

Logged by the CHIME/FRB Collaboration — millisecond-long radio flashes from far outside our galaxy, most still unexplained.

Gravitational waves & gamma-ray bursts

From the LIGO/Virgo Gravitational-Wave Open Science Center and the GCN/ATel astronomer alert networks — the ripples and flashes of colliding neutron stars and black holes.

Neutrinos & solar events

IceCube AMON for neutrino alerts from deep in the ice at the South Pole; NASA DONKI for the Sun's flares and coronal mass ejections.

The sky itself

The stellar background is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue (BSC5); constellation figures follow the IAU's own western asterisms.