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The stars of science fiction on a grid around Sol: Contact at Vega, Vulcan at Omicron Eridani, Aliens at Zeta Reticuli

Galaxy Map

The interstellar neighbourhood in 3D: the real stars of science fiction on a stacked grid, searchable and linkable.

Coloured ribbons fan out from Earth and coil around Venus and Mars, one ring per mission, labelled by year

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Interplanetary Missions

Every successful interplanetary mission as a ring around the planet it reached, stacked in arrival order, from the video's diagram.

Sol and Alpha Centauri joined by a ringed tube that narrows at the midpoint of the journey

Time Dilation Map

119,000+ stars in 3D with relativistic travel times: how long a journey takes for the ship and for home.