
Right now, somewhere in the world, a sunrise or sunset is painting the sky a majestic red

And the chances are a smartphone is capturing that moment and uploading it to Instagram.

Now, you can see all of these sunrises and sunsets in real-time using an interactive ‘All Our Yesterdays’ map.

Hover over the map below to see a sunset in your area

The global map, created by designer Michelle Chandra, places a marker for Instagram users’ #sunrise and #sunset tags from the past 24 hours.

‘We live in a world that follows a fixed idea of time, a standard synchronised time held in place by time zones, clocks, and calendars,’ Chandra writes on her website.

‘Instagram users reveal a different idea of time, a richly textured irregular time in which the setting sun and end of the day for one individual is the beginning of the day for another, a never-ending loop.’

The larger the bright dot on the zoomable map, the closer to the moment of the actual event.

Hover over the map below to see a sunrise in your area

'Instagram users who chase the sun with their cameras testify to the sun’s ceaseless grip on our lives,' says Chandra. On a separate map, she plots dark circles of all sunsets and sunrises uploaded from the past day

Some of the best images from the map posted on the May 3. The map automatically updates to include the latest Instagram shots

WHY MARS' SUNSETS ARE BLUE AND EARTH'S ARE RED While much of the surface of Mars is a deep red colour, sunsets on the planet are blue. This is because the red dust in the atmosphere filters out much of the red light from the sun. As the sun dips lower in the sky, its light has to travel through the lower layers of the atmosphere where the dust is thicker. On Earth our own atmosphere scatters blue light creating the red and orange shades that light up the sky at sun down . Advertisement

A search bar in the upper right corner can look up a certain location and users can also zoom in on photographs taken of a city or landmark.

Users can then hover over the dots to see the photograph captured.

Chandra found that Instagram users tend to upload photos of the sunset within four hours of the sun setting.

But when it comes to a sunrise, many Instagram users wait until the end of the day to reminisce on how it started.

On a separate map, Chandra plots dark circles of all sunsets and sunrises uploaded from the past day.

A third map reveals when two people are posting at the same time, with one updating the beginning and the other seeing the end of a day.

Chandra says the project reveals how our social networks can show the reality of time as a never-ending loop.

‘Our absolute ideas of a fixed quantified time cannot escape the irregular rhythms of the cosmic world we call home,’ Chandra says.

‘Instagram users who chase the sun with their cameras testify to the sun’s ceaseless grip on our lives.’

Chandra says the project reveals how our social networks can show the reality of time as a never-ending loop

A search bar in the upper right corner can look up a certain location and users can also zoom in on photographs taken of a city or landmark. Users can then hover over the dots to see the photograph captured. Pictured is a spread of the world's sunrises on Instagram

Instagram uploads hashtaged #sunrise (yellow) and #sunset (red). This map shows the sunsets across the US posted on Instagram today

Chandra found that Instagram users tend to upload photos of the sunset within four hours of the sun setting. But when it comes to a sunrise, many Instagram users wait until the end of the day to reminisce on how it started