3D Solar System

How to explore

• To turn: drag with the mouse, or with one finger.
• To zoom: scroll the mouse wheel, or pinch with two fingers.
• Click a planet or its name — the camera flies there and a card of facts opens.
• At first the planets move sped up. The 🕒 button puts everything where it really is at this moment, by your device’s clock — when it is night where you are, your side of Earth is dark too. ⏩ speeds it up again.
• Exploring can come with soft sound — it starts off; the 🔊 button turns it on or off. The guided tour is silent.
• Use the chips below to travel out to the Kuiper Belt, the heliosphere and the Oort cloud — the very edge of the Solar System. A planet's card leads on to its moons.
• “Guided tour” starts a 75-second journey. Pause it and the scene is yours to explore again.
• Tour keyboard shortcuts: Space or K play/pause, ← → one second back/forward, comma and full stop one frame, Home/End start/end, L loop, F full screen.

Note: to keep everything in view, sizes and distances are not to scale, and the planets move many times faster than they really do.

Planet textures: Solar System Scope, under CC BY 4.0; maps of the moons and Pluto: NASA, JPL and USGS (public domain). All resized and converted to WebP.