https://loklab.org Research from LokLab. Open methodology. Verifiable methods. A record of looking up. en-US Thu, 28 May 2026 15:20:48 GMT Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT LokLab in-house https://loklab.org/og/default.png https://loklab.org https://loklab.org/research/your-cosmic-address/ https://loklab.org/research/your-cosmic-address/ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) cosmic-address cosmology scale milky-way laniakea https://loklab.org/research/mapping-the-milky-way/ https://loklab.org/research/mapping-the-milky-way/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) milky-way galactic-structure gaia cosmic-cartography https://loklab.org/research/cosmic-web-structure/ https://loklab.org/research/cosmic-web-structure/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) cosmic-web large-scale-structure filaments voids redshift-surveys https://loklab.org/research/exoplanet-census-state-of-the-art/ https://loklab.org/research/exoplanet-census-state-of-the-art/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) exoplanets kepler tess jwst transit radial-velocity https://loklab.org/research/introducing-loklab/ https://loklab.org/research/introducing-loklab/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why we're starting a research lab devoted to the cosmos: what we publish, what we don't, and the standards we hold ourselves to. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) mission research methodology https://loklab.org/research/halleys-comet-recorded-returns/ https://loklab.org/research/halleys-comet-recorded-returns/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every 75 years, a single 15-kilometre block of ice and dust on a wildly eccentric orbit swings past Earth. We trace its documented apparitions from 240 BCE to its next predicted return in 2061. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) halley comets historical orbital-mechanics https://loklab.org/research/eddington-1919-recomputation/ https://loklab.org/research/eddington-1919-recomputation/ Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT We reconstruct the 1919 eclipse Eddington observed from Príncipe and recompute the stellar deflections from modern ephemerides. The results agree with Einstein to within published uncertainty. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) general-relativity eclipse calibration historical https://loklab.org/research/cosmic-distance-ladder/ https://loklab.org/research/cosmic-distance-ladder/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Eighteen orders of magnitude separate the Moon from the edge of the observable universe. We climb that distance one rung at a time, each rung calibrated against the rung below it. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) distance-ladder cepheids supernovae redshift methodology https://loklab.org/research/galileo-sky-reconstruction/ https://loklab.org/research/galileo-sky-reconstruction/ Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT On a winter night in Padua, Galileo turned his new telescope toward Jupiter and saw four points of light arranged in a line. We reconstruct that view using modern ephemerides. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) historical galileo methodology jupiter https://loklab.org/experiments/eclipse-calibration-experiment/ https://loklab.org/experiments/eclipse-calibration-experiment/ Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Full pre-registration document and experimental writeup for the pipeline-calibration study against twelve historical eclipses spanning 1715 to 2017. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) pre-registered calibration eclipses https://loklab.org/methods/time-standards/ https://loklab.org/methods/time-standards/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every astronomical calculation depends on a choice of time scale. We document which time standards we use, when they matter, and how to convert between them. contact@loklab.org (LokLab Research) methodology time-standards ephemeris