13.8 billion years, squeezed into one year

Stellarium/stellarium

Draws the real night sky live for your time and place: stars, planets and constellation lines. The web version needs no install.

achael/eht-imaging

Radio interferometry imaging software. When the Event Horizon Telescope published the first black hole image in 2019, this was one of the three imaging pipelines the collaboration used.

CelestiaProject/Celestia

A real-time 3D universe. Fly from Earth to other planets, stars and galaxies, with distances and orbits based on real data.

Chakazul/Lenia

A continuous version of the Game of Life. A few math rules grow patterns that move, turn and split, like tiny creatures under a microscope. The online version is playable right away.

hunar4321/particle-life

Particles of a few colors move by one table of who attracts and who repels whom, and they clump into cell-like structures on their own. Without the interface, the code is under a page.

google-deepmind/alphafold

Predicts 3D protein structure from an amino acid sequence. Half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to two of its developers, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper.

chrislgarry/Apollo-11

The guidance computer program for the 1969 Moon landing, transcribed from scans of printouts held by the MIT Museum. The file that handles ignition is called BURN_BABY_BURN.

github/archive-program

On 2 February 2020, GitHub wrote every active public repository of the time onto 186 reels of film and stored them in permafrost on Svalbard, Norway.

aourednik/historical-basemaps

Borders of countries and cultural regions across world history. The earliest map is 123,000 BCE, marked with Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals.