From a singularity to a sea of galaxies — 13.8 billion years, 2 trillion galaxies, and 1011 stars in each. Scroll to drift deeper into the void.
Nothing is close.
Everything is far.
Distance in space stops meaning what we know it to. These are the rungs of the cosmic ladder — each one a jump of scale that reshapes intuition.
The Earth → Moon
One light-second stretched across the void. A laser round trip takes 2.5 seconds.
The Solar System
Light takes 4.3 hours to reach Pluto — and we leave it all behind, the Voyager 1 probe still counting.
The Nearest Star
Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbour, sits 4.24 light-years away. Light itself needs years.
Our Galaxy
The Milky Way is 100,000 light-years across. A photon would spend a hundred millennia crossing it.
The Observable Universe
93 billion light-years of everything we can ever see — a sphere our tiny galaxy floats inside of.
A system in perpetual fall.
A planet in orbit is falling forever and missing. Hover the system to freeze time; use the controls to bend its speed.
13.8 billion years,
compressed.
If the universe were a single year, every human civilization would fit inside the final hour. Here is the story so far.
The Big Bang
Space, time, energy, and everything that follows begin. In a fraction of a second the universe inflates faster than light.
First Atoms
The universe cools enough for protons and neutrons to fuse into hydrogen and helium — the raw fuel of all future stars.
First Stars Ignite
Gravity pulls gas into the first giant stars. Inside their cores, the first heavy elements — carbon, oxygen, iron — are forged.
Galaxies Take Shape
Stars cluster into the first galaxies. Structure emerges from the soup — the scaffolding of the cosmos as we know it.
Sun & Earth Form
A cloud of gas and dust collapses. At its heart a star ignites; in its orbit, a rocky world cools — and something begins to stir.
Now
You, reading this, are the universe observing itself. Every atom in your body was made in the heart of a star.
Objects that defy your mind.
Move your cursor across a card to feel its depth. Each one is a place physics turns strange.
Black Holes
Regions where gravity wins. Inside the event horizon, not even light escapes — and time itself drags toward the singularity.
Nebulae
Cosmic nurseries of gas and dust where new stars are born. The Pillars of Creation stand 6,500 light-years away, still forming.
Supernovae
A star's violent death outshines an entire galaxy. In that blast, the iron in your blood was forged and scattered across space.
Exoplanets
Over 5,700 confirmed worlds orbit other stars — many alien, some in the temperate zone where liquid water might pool.
Neutron Stars
A city-sized core of a dead star, denser than an atom. A single sugar-cube of its matter weighs about Mount Everest.
Galaxies
Islands of a trillion stars held together by gravity and mystery. Dark matter binds it all — and we still don't know what it is.
Bend spacetime.
Move your pointer to become a source of gravity. Particles orbit, swirl, and collapse toward you — a toy model of mass warping the fabric of space. Click to reset the swarm.