Everything you can fly to in The Milky Way, to scale, explained: what it is, how far away, how bright, how big, how we know, and what the piece is showing you when you get there. The numbers on every page are the ones the piece itself draws with.
The Solar System
The Sun, the planets and the moons the piece draws, lit only by sunlight. All 19 ›
The Sun · Mercury · Venus · Earth · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune · Pluto · Moon · Phobos
Stars
The Sun's neighbours, the bright stars of the constellations and the companions they hide. All 335 ›
Proxima Centauri · Alpha Centauri A · Alpha Centauri B · Barnard's Star · Wolf 359 · Lalande 21185 · Sirius A · Sirius B · Luyten 726-8 A · Ross 154 · Ross 248 · Epsilon Eridani
Deep sky
Star clusters, nebulae, star-forming clouds, supernova remnants and nearby galaxies. All 103 ›
Hyades · Pleiades (M45) · Merope Nebula · Orion Nebula (M42) · Coalsack · Double Cluster · Omega Centauri · M13 · 47 Tucanae · M22 · Carina Nebula · Lagoon Nebula (M8)
Constellations
All 88 figures, and how far apart their stars really are. All 88 ›
Ursa Major · Orion · Cassiopeia · Cygnus · Scorpius · Crux · Leo · Taurus · Gemini · Sagittarius · Bootes · Lyra
The Milky Way
The spiral arms of our galaxy, as the piece models them. All 6 ›
Norma Arm · Scutum–Centaurus Arm · Sagittarius–Carina Arm · Local (Orion) Spur · Perseus Arm · Outer Arm
Scales
Each rung of the zoom, from the Earth and Moon to the Local Group. All 10 ›
The Earth and the Moon · The inner Solar System · The Solar System · The Oort cloud · The stellar neighbourhood · The Local Bubble · The Orion Spur · The Milky Way · The Local Group · The sky from Earth
Spacecraft
The machines the piece follows: Voyager 1 and 2, the James Webb Space Telescope, the ISS. All 4 ›
Voyager 1 · Voyager 2 · The James Webb Space Telescope · The International Space Station