The Celestium Atlas

The known universe,
to scale, in one flight.

Forty light-years of real star systems, the planets where they truly are tonight, a living black hole at the heart of the galaxy, and the cosmic web beyond — the most advanced map of the universe ever put in a browser. Begin at home; travel as far as you dare.

Earth · the Solar System · TRAPPIST-1 · 40 named stars · the Milky Way · Sagittarius A*

The Atlas

You are looking at

Earth

above the surface

now

The Atlas

The known universe,
one continuous journey.

The Atlas is a scale-accurate flight through the Solar System — the Sun, the eight planets at their true positions today, and the Moon — with the galaxy beyond. It needs WebGL and motion to fly; on this device it rests. The numbers it is built from: the Moon at 384,400 km, the Sun at 149.6 million km, Neptune thirty times farther still — and the nearest star 7,000 times beyond Neptune.