From one world to the cosmic web

GalAtlas

Explore the known universe at every scale — from a single rocky exoplanet to the galaxies beyond our own.

A cinematic, interactive 3D atlas of exoplanets and our own Solar System, the Milky Way, and the clusters and superclusters past it — built on real data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Take the grand tour, or chart your own course outward.

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Inside GalAtlas

• The Atlas — a 3D field of ~4,700 host stars and 6,300+ confirmed exoplanets in the solar neighbourhood, each placed by its real sky coordinates and distance, with nebulae, constellations, and overlays of real stellar groups and clusters (β Pictoris, Praesepe, the Hyades, Scorpius–Centaurus and more).
• Planetary systems — click any star to fly into its orbital map: the host star, its planets on true-to-scale orbits, and the habitable zone.
• Every world — radius, mass, temperature, planet type, orbital period, distance, host-star type, and discovery method and year.
• The Milky Way & Cosmos — zoom out to the whole galaxy, then on to the Local Group, galaxy clusters, and the cosmic web.
• Timeline, Sky map, Compare and guided tours of exoplanet discovery from 1992 to today.

Built by Nichalas Barnes. A companion to Polis — The Atlas of Power.