In space
Day and night, live
The line between day and night, drawn where the Sun puts it now and sliding west as the Earth turns.
What you see
- The night side shaded and the day side clear, with the boundary moving as the hours pass.
Where the data comes from
- Worked out in your browserFrom the Sun’s position at the current time; nothing is fetched.
Redrawn every 5 minutes.
Goes well with
Aurora forecastNOAA’s aurora forecast live on a map: where the northern and southern lights are likely in the next half hour, over the line between day and night.
The Sun, Moon and planetsThe Sun, Moon, planets and brightest stars in their true places around a live 3D globe, from NASA JPL Horizons and the Yale Bright Star Catalogue.
Earth from weather satellites, liveThe whole Earth from GOES, Meteosat and Himawari weather satellites on a live map, a new frame every 10 minutes, about 40 minutes behind real time.