You can bring moonlight indoors thanks to this $30,000 lamp that looks exactly like the moon

Created by the studio Relative Distance,
Phase uses custom precision optics to capture the diffused quality of moonlight.

Light designs inspired by the solar system are nothing groundbreaking—from the star-based night-lights in childhood bedrooms to the kitschy astronaut lamps that seem to appear on every budget-friendly home goods site. But a new lunar light from the design studio Relative Distance is taking that concept and elevating it to luxury design-object status, using precision optics to render a high-fidelity replica of the Moon and its phases in real time.

The light, called Phase, is currently available for preorder, in a limited run of 28 (each light will cost £30,000, or about $39,000). Phase comes in two backing colors inspired by lunar regolith, the fine layer of dust that covers the Moon’s surface: Ilmenite, which is typically a steel gray, and Feldspar, which is a lighter grey hue. It uses custom optic technology and more than 15,000 satellite images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to capture the Moon’s waxing and waning down to the smallest minutiae.