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Fly from Earth to Andromeda at true scale, in your browser
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Fly from Earth to Andromeda at true scale, in your browser
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A free 3D space flight in your browser. Start at Earth, pass the planets where they are today, fly between real nearby stars and on to Andromeda, all at true distances. Press V for the full-sky ultraviolet map. Two small games included. No sign-up.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I'm the maker. This started with a simple question: what does the solar system feel like at its real distances? Every diagram I grew up with puts the planets right next to each other, and I never had a sense of how empty the space between them is.
So I built a place where you can just fly it. A few things you can try:
Hit "Destinations" (or M) and pick Saturn. The planets sit at their actual positions for today, so the distance you see is today's distance
Click "Descend to the surface" near a planet and look along the horizon
Fly to Sirius. The stars are about 110k real stars from the HYG catalogue, and the sky is redrawn as it looks from wherever you are
Press V to swap the sky to the full-sky ultraviolet map that Brice Ménard made with Claude Science (Anthropic wrote about it in October)
Keep going past a few thousand light-years and a model of the whole Milky Way appears
There are also two small games on top of the same 3D scene: Escape Earth (dodge asteroids and see how far you get) and Defend the Solar System (capture planets from an alien fleet, 15 missions out to Andromeda).
A couple of honest notes: about a third of the UV map is predicted rather than observed, the 3D UV landmarks are flat images placed at their real distance, and the Milky Way seen from outside is a model.
It's free and there's no sign-up. I'd love to hear where you got lost, what felt slow, and how it runs on your phone.