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Faraway

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The solar system in 3D, from 1900 to 2100, in your browser

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Faraway is a 3D model of the solar system that runs in the browser with WebGL 2. Fly to the Sun, the planets and their moons, Ceres, Pluto, asteroids like Bennu and Ryugu, or comets Halley and 67P, then speed time up, pause, or jump to any date from 1900 to 2100. Positions come from the open-source Astronomy Engine library plus precomputed ephemerides. Textures and shape models from NASA, ESA and JAXA missions are credited per body. English, Chinese, Japanese. Free, no account.

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  • IlyasHunter Pinned

    Most solar system viewers either approximate positions or look like astronomy software from 2005. Faraway places each body where it really is on the date you pick, and you can jump to moments like Halley's Comet at perihelion or New Horizons at Pluto. It's a solo indie project that got only a few points on Show HN, but the per-body credits for every texture and shape model show unusual care.