Our Story

The most significant images of our time are not made with a brush, or with a camera on Earth. They are recorded by instruments such as the James Webb Space Telescope, working some 1.5 million kilometres away, in light the human eye cannot see.

These images are data before they are pictures. Each one is the work of scientific teams who capture, calibrate and translate observations into colour. We believe they also belong to the cultural record of our century, and that they deserve to be seen at a scale, and with a permanence, that a screen cannot give.

What we do

UniverseMuseum is an independent fine art print studio in Vilnius, Lithuania. We select a small number of images from the public archives of NASA, ESA, CSA and partner observatories, and present each one as a physical object.

We curate; we do not redesign. Images are cropped and colour-managed for print. Nothing is added, removed or generated. Every work carries the credit of the institution and the team behind it.

How we print

Every print is made to order in our own studio on an Epson SureColor P20500 with twelve-colour pigment inks. Fine Art prints are made on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Metallic; Poster prints on professional photo paper. Either edition can be framed behind shatter-resistant acrylic glazing, ready to hang.

Editions

Each Fine Art edition is limited to 50 numbered prints per size, plus 5 artist's proofs, each with a Numbered Certificate of Authenticity. When an edition sells out, it is closed for good: the work is never printed again in that size and paper. Poster prints are an open edition.

Scale matters. At 50 × 70 cm and above, the filaments of a supernova remnant or the edge of a star-forming cloud become legible in a way no phone screen can show.

The images

The images are released by their institutions under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. UniverseMuseum is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI or the Rubin Observatory. Full credits for every work are listed on our Image Credits page.

Our aim is simple: to treat the most remarkable observations of the universe as what they are — part of humanity's shared record, preserved as objects for the wall.