Studying the cosmos , its planets, its galaxies,
and the structure beyond.
LokLab investigates the night sky through computational astronomy, historical sky reconstruction, and quantitative analysis of cosmic patterns. We publish open methodology and share our raw findings, including the null results.
Open methods. Verifiable claims.
Publish the nulls
Most studies that don't confirm a hypothesis are quietly buried. We publish them. A non-result is still a result. Replicable nulls advance the field; hidden ones corrupt it.
Show the math
Every calculation is documented. Every ephemeris choice, coordinate system, and time standard is explicit. Reproducibility starts with disclosure.
Honor the lineage
Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Newton, Herschel, Hubble, Sagan. Astronomy is a continuous human project. We build on what came before, with proper attribution and respect for prior work.
Build for verification
Open code paths, traceable data, public versioning. If you can't audit it, you can't trust it. Our methodology is designed to be challenged.
Recent publications
Your Cosmic Address
Where you are in the universe, written out as a nested coordinate from Earth's surface to the boundary of the observable universe. Ten rungs, each a measurable fact.
Read research →Mapping the Milky Way: What Modern Surveys Show Us
We live inside a barred spiral galaxy of a few hundred billion stars. Gaia and a century of structural surveys have given us a confident picture of its shape, its rotation, and our place inside it.
The Cosmic Web: How Galaxies Hang Together
Galaxies are not scattered through the universe at random. They form filaments, sheets, and walls around enormous near-empty voids. We summarise what redshift surveys have shown and what's still being argued.
Six Thousand Worlds: The State of Exoplanet Discovery
Three decades after the first confirmed exoplanet, the count of confirmed worlds is past six thousand and climbing. We summarise how they were found, what they look like, and what we still can't measure.
The sky Galileo saw. The eclipse that proved Einstein. The universe Hubble found expanding.
We reconstruct sky configurations for moments that mattered: telescopic discoveries, supernovae, eclipses, and the observations that reshaped cosmology. Every reconstruction is verifiable against modern ephemerides.
Explore the archive →The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, these were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.