With thanks
Credits
- Cosmology and the kala scale
- Bapuji Dashrathbhai Patel (paramshantiblogs.org, and his book Life in Multiverse).
- Deities and realms
- Paintings generated for this project. The painting of Shankar and Parvati over Kailash was generated for this project (Magnific).
- The Milky Way
- "Artist's impression of the Milky Way", NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt, CC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons), cropped and edge-faded.
- The neighbouring galaxies
- Andromeda - Adam Evans, CC BY 2.0. Triangulum - ESO, CC BY 4.0. Large Magellanic Cloud - Harel Boren, CC BY 4.0. Small Magellanic Cloud - CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever (Montana State University), image processing Travis Rector, Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin, CC BY 4.0. M81 and M82 - NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), public domain. Centaurus A - ESO, CC BY 4.0. Sculptor Galaxy - T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, T. Abbott and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, CC BY 4.0. M32 - NASA, ESA, B. Williams (University of Washington), image processing Gladys Kober, CC0. M110 - NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, CC BY 4.0. All via Wikimedia Commons.
- Our universe
- The cosmic microwave background: NASA / WMAP Science Team, 9-year map, public domain (reprojected and recoloured).
- The Earth
- NASA Blue Marble - day, clouds, night lights (public domain).
- The Moon
- NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (CGI Moon Kit).
- The stars
- Yale Bright Star Catalogue (BSC5, via CDS). Sky positions: Astronomy Engine (MIT).
- Bhuloka - the Himalaya
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 and WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024.
- Type
- Brygada 1918 (Capitalics) and Anek Latin (Ek Type), both under the SIL Open Font License, via Google Fonts.