MyCosmo
Space news, NASA's daily astronomy picture, and a solar system explorer - free and open source.
- Mission
- MSN-003
- Year
- 2024
- Kind
- Open Source
- Role
- Design & development
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Overview.
MyCosmo brings together space news, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, a solar system explorer, and a personal observation log in one native SwiftUI app - no third-party dependencies, just Apple frameworks and two public space-data APIs.
Observations are stored locally with SwiftData, so logging what you saw through a telescope stays fast and works offline.
My Final Degree Project - the app I built to close out my studies, and the first one I built properly, end to end. I decided to open-source it so others could learn from it or build on it.
Features.
Space news feed
Articles, blogs, and reports pulled from the Spaceflight News API, with filtering by type.
NASA's picture of the day
The official Astronomy Picture of the Day, fetched live from NASA's APOD API.
Solar system explorer
Browse every planet with real data - radius, mass, gravity, distance from the sun, and moons.
Observation journal
Log personal astronomy observations offline, with a title, description, category, and up to 3 photos.