Credits & attributions

Everything this corner of space is built on.

Imagery

Surface maps of the Sun, Mars, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, and the Milky Way panorama, by Solar System Scope, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Based on NASA elevation and imagery data.

Open source

Next.jsframework
ReactUI
three.js3D engine
React Three Fiber + dreiReact renderer for three.js
postprocessingbloom, grain, vignette
GSAPcamera choreography
Zustandstate
Tailwind CSSstyling
Geisttype family

Physics

The orbits run on a velocity-Verlet n-body integrator written by hand for this site — no physics library. Gravity © Isaac Newton, 1687. Public domain.