Interactive Universe — a real-time 3D map of our universe

Interactive Universe (Cosmoscope) is a free, real-time 3D map of the cosmos that runs in your browser. Fly from a live, correctly sunlit Earth out past the planets, the deep-space probes, notable comets and asteroids, and beyond the Milky Way — all in one continuous zoom, built on real astronomical data.

It shows, at their real positions and to scale:

• Every planet and 20 major moons, with real NASA mission maps and live orientation.
• Thousands of tracked satellites, propagated from current orbital elements.
• Deep-space probes — Voyager, Pioneer, Parker Solar Probe, JWST and more — on their real trajectories.
• Notable comets and asteroids with real shape models.
• Over 100,000 real stars, the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, and NASA 3D reconstructions of the Crab Nebula, Cassiopeia A and the Cygnus Loop.

Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, and click any object to fly to it and read live distances and light-travel times. A time control scrubs from the past into the future, or pins to real time.