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📊 Statistics
Distance: 0 AU
Sim Time: 0s
Date: Feb 4, 2026
Planets: 8 + 2 dwarf
Moons: 17
Camera: 160
🌍 Planetary Events
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Planet Info
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🌌 Milky Way Galaxy
LocationOrion Arm
Distance from center26,000 ly
Orbital speed230 km/s
Galactic orbit period~225 Myr
Galaxy diameter~100,000 ly
Stars in galaxy100-400 billion
Galaxy typeBarred spiral (SBbc)
Height above plane~56 ly (N)
☀ You Are Here
Our solar system sits in the Orion Arm (Orion Spur), a minor spiral arm between the larger Perseus and Sagittarius-Carina arms. We orbit the galactic center once every ~225 million years — a journey called a galactic year.
Exoplanets confirmed5,800+
Galaxy surveyed for planets<0.001%
Zoom in to see: the Kepler survey cone toward Cygnus, the Gaia star catalogue reach, and the Galactic Habitable Zone where life is most likely.
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Scientific Accuracy Notes
Accurate:
• Orbital periods (Mercury 88d through Neptune 60,190d)
• Relative orbital speeds (derived from real periods)
• Conjunction/opposition calculations (two-body mechanics)
• Saturn ring structure (D, C, B, A, F rings with Cassini gap)
• NASA photorealistic textures with bump mapping
• Vortex motion concept (solar system moves at ~220 km/s through galaxy)
Scaled for visualization:
• Planet sizes (Jupiter should be 11x Earth, shown ~2.5x)
• Distances (real spacing would make inner planets invisible)
• Orbits circular by default — enable Elliptical Orbits for real eccentricities (Kepler's 2nd law)
• All orbits coplanar (real system has slight inclinations)
• Vortex helix ratio greatly exaggerated for visual drama
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