⭐ MY BIRTHDAY STAR ⭐

What is a birthday star?

The concept of the "Birthday Star" is simple yet captivating. It's entirely based on science, not astrology or horoscopes.

Imagine a star located at a specific distance from Earth, where the light you witness today was emitted on the day you were born. In essence, the light particles (photons) you observe are as old as you are, having travelled through space for all that time.

How do i find my birthday star?

Visit https://mybirthdaystar.pages.dev/, and pick your birthday.

Data Source(s)

All data was obtained from the HYG Catalog (3.7).

star_db.json: Stars with a proper name, a magnitude less than 6 and a distance no more than 150 light years.

unnamed_stars_db.json: Stars without a proper name but with a HD or HIP catalog id, a magnitude less than 6 and a distance no more than 150 light years.

Credits

This of course isn't my idea, the idea of birthday stars already exists. I got inpired by http://freeant.net/birthdaystar/.

The UI design was heavily inspired from NASA Eyes.

Contributing

I welcome contributions from the community. If you find a bug, have a feature request, or want to contribute code, please open an issue or a pull request on the GitHub repository.