Our Solar System
A working atlas of the planets.

The 3D solar system,
in real time.

An interactive 3D solar system viewer — every planet, the major moons, comets, and the asteroid belt, rendered in your browser with real orbital motion and NASA imagery. Free, no signup.

Three.jsWebGL 2.0NASA imageryFree, forever
Bodies

Pick a world.

Each one has a page of facts, atmosphere, surface, formation, moons, and the missions that have visited — plus a one-click jump to that body inside the 3D viewer.

Sun Star The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star at the centre of the solar system, with a surface temperature of about 5,778 K and a diameter of 1,392,700 km — large enough to fit 1.3 million Earths inside it. Mercury Terrestrial Planet Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system and the closest to the Sun, completing an orbit every 88 Earth days at an average distance of 57.9 million km. Venus Terrestrial Planet Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the hottest world in the solar system, with a surface temperature of about 465 °C — hot enough to melt lead. Earth Terrestrial Planet Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the only known world with life, and the densest planet in the solar system. Mars Terrestrial Planet Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, the Red Planet, with a thin CO₂ atmosphere and an iron-oxide-rich surface that gives it its colour. Jupiter Gas Giant Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system — a gas giant with more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined and a diameter of 139,820 km. Saturn Gas Giant Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the solar system, a gas giant best known for its bright ring system. Uranus Ice Giant Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, an ice giant tilted nearly 98° so it rolls along its orbit on its side. Neptune Ice Giant Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun, a deep-blue ice giant with the strongest sustained winds of any planet — up to 2,100 km/h. Pluto Dwarf Planet Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the first such object ever discovered, and the largest known.
Inside the viewer

More than a model.

An interactive simulation, not a static poster. Real orbital mechanics. Real textures. Real fly-through.

Photoreal rendering

Saturn's rings, sub-pixel thin.

8K NASA-derived textures, custom GLSL shaders for the Sun and atmospheres, shadow-casting rings. At true scale, Saturn's rings are 10–100 metres thick — almost a million times thinner than they are wide.

Read about Saturn
Fly mode

Pilot a spacecraft, planet to planet.

Switch into Fly mode and take the controls. Realistic gravity, momentum, and orbit stabilisation. Land in low Earth orbit, slingshot past the Moon, then push out to Mars — all in real time.

Open the viewer
Science overlay

Live telemetry on whatever you're watching.

Toggle the science panel and the viewer streams real-time telemetry — phase, diameter, distance, velocity, orbital period — for the body in focus. Everything sourced from real ephemeris data.

Read about Earth
Phase
86%
Distance
385,420km
Velocity
29.78km/s
Orbital P
365.25d
Topics

Take the long way round.

Pages that compare, rank, and contextualise. Designed to answer the question, not just present a model.

FAQ

Common questions.

Real motion or just a model?

Real motion. Every body — Sun, planets, moons, comets — moves on its actual orbital track. Time speed is adjustable from paused to fifty times reality.

How accurate are the visuals?

Textures are NASA imagery via Solar System Scope. Sizes and distances are dramatised by default for visibility. A "Realistic" scale slider drops everything to true relative size — at which point the planets become specks and Saturn's rings vanish, which is exactly what they would look like in reality.

What can you do in the viewer?

Click any body to focus it. Step through the system with arrow keys. Switch into Fly mode to pilot a spacecraft between planets under realistic gravity. Toggle the science overlay for live telemetry. Open the object browser to jump to comets, dwarf planets, near-Earth asteroids, or active probes.

How is it built?

Three.js, WebGL 2.0, custom GLSL shaders for the Sun and atmospheres, a procedural Tone.js soundtrack. No signup, no paywall.

Open the atlas.
Take a look around.

Loads in under a second. Click any planet, drag to orbit, scroll to zoom. Or hand the wheel over and watch the system run on its own.

Open the viewer