COSMOSa real map of the universe
How to fly the universe
dragrotate the viewscrollzoom (Sun → Milky Way)
clickselect (info + sources)dbl-clickfly to it
W A S Drotate+ / −zoom
Fframe the SunLtoggle labels
Escclose panels/focus search
Time & motion: press play — what moves depends on your zoom: planets orbit the Sun (years), nearby stars drift on real velocities (millennia), the Milky-Way disk rotates & winds (mega-years), and out past it the universe expands toward the Big Bang / deep future. Sandbox: drop a black hole / resize the Sun and watch real gravity reshape the orbits.

Every object is a real record — nothing is procedurally generated; the spiral-arm diagram is a labeled model. ~55,000 objects from Wikidata · OpenNGC · AT-HYG · NASA Exoplanet Archive · Fermi · LVDB; each links to authoritative sources (SIMBAD / NED / NASA / ATNF / Wikipedia). Planets: NASA fact sheets.
drag to look · scroll to zoom from the Sun out to the Milky Way · click an object
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