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Your face in the stars

Astro-matching image tool
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Your Face in the Universe: Upload any photo and discover your cosmic twin among millions of galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters from NASA's Hubble, JWST, and Sloan Digital Sky Survey archives.

We pre-process the entire cosmic catalog using perceptual hashing and neural networks to extract visual signatures—converting each galaxy's spirals, nebula's wisps, and cluster's patterns into searchable mathematical fingerprints.

When you upload your image, we extract its unique features (edges, colors, textures) and use Spotify's Annoy algorithm to instantly find the ~1000 most similar cosmic signatures from billions of pre-indexed possibilities.

Our AI then performs detailed matching to rank your top cosmic doppelgangers—whether your face resembles the swirling arms of the Whirlpool Galaxy or your company logo mirrors the ethereal glow of the Eagle Nebula.

Every person and brand gets their own corner of the universe, scientifically matched and ready to share—because everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in the stars.

not_only_but_also, Jun 23 2025

Along those lines. Your_20Constellations
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       You'll just end up sending the same pattern -- the one that most closely resembles a human face -- to everyone.
Voice, Jun 23 2025
  

       Yes, I realised that half way through and added ...YOUR CORPORATE LOGO! Pivoting furiously mid-idea to save face. Or, erm, save logo.
not_only_but_also, Jun 23 2025
  

       I found my mind wandering somewhere similar, last night, or perhaps this morning. Seeing this just now, I probably subconsciously read the title.   

       So I was thinking that we know relative distances, directions and brightnesses of stars from the Solar system. And the human brain is cursed with pareidolia.
So it would be possible to search the database to find locations where something vaguely like a human face could be discerned.
I don't think nearest neighbours would help much, though, and space only has three dimensions, so maybe Annoy isn't going to be useful here.
Loris, Jun 23 2025
  
      
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