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Explore the universe.
One click at a time.

From meteor showers and planets to black holes, exoplanets and deep-space missions.

🌍 Live sky tools🔭 Interactive explorers🌌 Deep space

Tonight's Sky

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🛰️ Mission Progress

Explore the site, complete daily missions, build your streak and unlock visual rewards.

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BADGES0unlocked

🎯 Daily Missions

Resets daily • streak bonus applies automatically

🏆 Local Leaderboard

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🎨 Reward Lab

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🌠 Upcoming Space Events
Saturn at Opposition
October 4, 2026
Draconid Meteor Shower
October 8–9, 2026
New Moon
October 10, 2026
Mercury Greatest Elongation
October 12, 2026
Orionid Meteor Shower
October 21–22, 2026
Hunter's Moon
October 26, 2026
Leonid Meteor Shower
November 17–18, 2026
Geminid Meteor Shower
December 14–15, 2026
Ursid Meteor Shower
December 22–23, 2026
Full Moon
December 24, 2026

☄️ Meteor Shower

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🌠 Watch the sky

This is a custom SpaceWatch meteor-shower animation. Meteors appear from a radiant point and streak across the night sky with different speeds, lengths and brightnesses.

Tip Try Geminids or Perseids, then hit 💥 Meteor Burst.

🌌 Galaxy Atlas

GALAXY ATLAS · UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE

See how galaxies are built, shaped and evolving.

SpaceWatch puts galaxies here so you can compare their shapes, sizes, distances and structures — not just scroll through pretty pictures.

✦ Classify shapes↔ Compare scale◉ Explore structure
WHY GALAXIES ARE HERE

Galaxy Atlas

Use the atlas to learn how galaxies differ, how enormous they are, and where they sit in the cosmic neighbourhood.

Select a lens
LIVE 3D MORPHOLOGY LAB

Rotate the galaxy type

Pick a galaxy family and the 3D structure rebuilds instantly.

SPIRAL
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💫 Nebula Lab

NEBULA LAB · THE LIFE CYCLE OF STARS

Follow the clouds, births and remnants of stars.

Nebulae are here because they reveal the life cycle of stars — from huge gas clouds to glowing shells and supernova remnants.

☁ Star nurseries⚡ Stellar death◉ Explore the types
WHY NEBULAE ARE HERE

Nebula Lab

Follow the places where stars are assembled, illuminate their surroundings, and leave behind spectacular remnants.

Choose a stage
LIVE 3D STELLAR-CLOUD LAB

Change the nebula type

Each type gets a different 3D cloud, shell, dust lane or shock-front structure.

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🪐 Planet Lab

PLANET LAB · UNDERSTAND WORLDS

Compare worlds instead of just looking at them.

Planets are here as a hands-on lab: study atmosphere, gravity, temperature, moons and scale, then jump into the 3D world.

↔ Compare worlds◉ Explore the types◌ 3D worlds
WHY PLANETS ARE HERE

Planet Lab

Turn each planet into a real comparison: what is it made of, what is its environment like, and how does it differ from Earth?

Choose a lab mode
LIVE 3D WORLD LAB

Build a different kind of world

Switch between common NASA-style exoplanet classes and exotic or hypothetical worlds; the 3D model visibly rebuilds for each one.

ROCKY WORLD
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🌙 Moon Explorer

EARTH'S NATURAL SATELLITE

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🌕 Interactive 360° Moon
Drag to rotate • Scroll to zoom • Explore the Moon from every angle
📍 Moon from your location
Use your location to calculate the Moon position.
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🗓️ Upcoming major phases
🚀 Artemis II

Explore the Moon while viewing live phase and sky-position information. The design is themed around lunar exploration and NASA's Artemis program.

🌕 About the Moon

The Moon is Earth's natural satellite. Its changing appearance is caused by the changing geometry between the Sun, Earth and Moon. One complete cycle from New Moon to New Moon takes about 29.5 days.

✨ Stars

STELLAR ATLAS

Pick a star and zoom into its story.

Explore bright stars across the sky, compare temperature, distance and brightness, and click any star on the map.

INTERACTIVE STARFIELD Select a star
✦ LIVE STARFIELDHover a star
Drag to pan • Scroll to zoom • Click stars

⭐ Star Types Lab

STELLAR EVOLUTION • 3D TYPE LAB

Explore stars from blue giants to exotic remnants.

Pick a stellar type. The 3D model changes its scale, color, structure, rings, beams, wind and companions so you can see what makes it different.

ACTIVE TYPEG-type star
LIVE 3D MODEL

G-type star

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TYPE SELECTOR

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🕳️ Black Holes

EXTREME GRAVITY LAB

Where space and time get weird.

Choose a famous black hole and inspect its size, mass, environment and what scientists observe around it.

SIMULATION ACTIVE Choose a target
EVENT HORIZON VISUALIZATIONSelect a black hole

🪐 Exoplanets

WORLDS BEYOND THE SUN

Tour other planetary systems.

Switch between famous exoplanet systems and watch their planets orbit their host star in a simple visual model.

SYSTEM VIEW TRAPPIST-1

🚀 Space Missions

HUMANITY'S SPACE ARCHIVE

Launches that changed what we know.

Jump through an interactive mission timeline and inspect the spacecraft, destination, launch year and scientific goal.

MISSION ARCHIVE Pick a mission

☀️ Solar System

INTERACTIVE SPACE SIMULATOR

The Solar System — Zoom Into Everything

Pan around the system, zoom from the Kuiper Belt down to the inner planets, hover objects, and click anything highlighted.

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Sun Planets Dwarf planets Comets Asteroids Belts
🪐 8 PlanetsMercury → Neptune
🧊 5 Dwarf PlanetsCeres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake
☄️ 5 Featured CometsHalley, Encke, Swift–Tuttle, Tempel–Tuttle, Borrelly
🪨 10 Featured AsteroidsVesta, Pallas, Juno, Hygiea, Eros, Apophis, Bennu, Ryugu, Ida, Mathilde

🌌 Cosmic Scale

FROM YOUR STREET TO THE EDGE OF THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE

How Big Is Everything?

Start close to Earth and keep zooming out. Watch the scale change from metres and kilometres to Earth, the Solar System, the Milky Way and the observable universe.

SCALE EXPLORER Ant • 8 cm view
Current width8 cm
Zoom stageMicroscale
Maximum93 billion ly
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LIVE SCALE MODEL
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🐜 1 cm → 1 mAnts, leaves and everyday objects.
🏙️ 10 m → 10,000 kmPeople, cars, buildings, cities and Earth.
☀️ 384,400 km → 100,000 lyMoon, Solar System, stars and the Milky Way.
🌌 1 million ly → 93 billion lyGalaxies, cosmic structures and the observable universe.
🪐 Planet 3D
Drag to rotate • Scroll to zoom • Explore your selected planet from every angle

🛰️ Satellite Explorer

🌍 Interactive Earth + live orbital data
Satellite data has not been loaded yet.
Drag to rotate • Scroll to zoom • Click a satellite to select it
🛰️ Selected Satellite
Select a satellite on the globe or use the search box.
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