A small archive,
printed as cards.
Skyborn is a free, public-archive reading room dressed as a card vault. You bring a date or a name. We find the picture taken on it (or the patch of Earth shaped like it) and print it as a numbered, holo-foiled trading card.
A personal cosmos as a collection.
Most of us were born under a sky we never saw. Somewhere a telescope was awake: Hubble, the Very Large Telescope, a Landsat satellite. They captured an image we were never told was ours. Skyborn finds that image and prints it as a card.
The card is the unit. Catalog ID. Rarity. Edition. A holographic foil edge that ripples when you tilt it. Stat lines along the bottom. A wordmark embossed across the lower portion that only shows at certain angles. The artifact is the point.
Skyborn is free and ad-free. The vault is open to everyone because the source archives are.
Seven public archives, attribution baked in.
Every card carries the credit string mandated by its license. Where the source is in the public domain, we still record the photographer, the instrument, and the release date. Nothing is anonymous.
- NASA APOD PUBLIC DOMAIN
- ESA Hubble PD / CC BY
- ESA Webb PD / CC BY
- ESO CC BY 4.0
- USGS Landsat PUBLIC DOMAIN
- Copernicus Sentinel COPERNICUS · OPEN
- ESA Gaia CC BY 4.0
Skyborn is not affiliated with NASA, ESA, ESO, USGS, or the Copernicus programme. It is built with their public-domain and CC BY 4.0 imagery, with credit preserved on every card.
If you are a curator or rights holder and would like attribution corrected, removed, or improved on any plate, write to hello@skyborn.app.
Made with ♥
by RevoltBots.
A small studio that builds tools for the public archive. Not a startup. No funding. No API.