Voyager 2 Flyby of Saturn, 26 August 1981
Simulate Voyager 2's August 1981 flyby of Saturn. Trace the gravity assist that targeted Uranus, enabling humanity's only comprehensive four-giant-planet Grand Tour in 3D.
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Voyager 2 Flyby of Uranus, 24 January 1986
Relive humanity's only close visit to Uranus with Voyager 2 in January 1986. Watch the probe skim within 81,792 km of the tilted ice giant, its faint rings, and moon Miranda in 3D.
Voyager 2 Flyby of Neptune, 25 August 1989
Relive Voyager 2's August 1989 close encounter with Neptune and geyser-spouting moon Triton, marking the grand finale of NASA's historic Grand Tour of the outer planets in 3D.
Pioneer 10 Flyby of Jupiter, 4 December 1973
Relive Pioneer 10's historic December 1973 encounter as humanity's first probe to visit Jupiter. Watch it brave intense radiation belts to fly within 133,211 km of the gas giant.
Rosetta Orbit of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Experience ESA's Rosetta spacecraft in close orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Watch the probe escort the active comet through perihelion in stunning 3D.
Dawn Orbit of Vesta
Follow NASA's Dawn spacecraft in orbit around asteroid Vesta. Experience humanity's first close orbital survey of a differentiated protoplanet and its colossal impact crater.
Dawn Orbit of Ceres
Simulate NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbiting dwarf planet Ceres. Explore the gravitational environment of the asteroid belt's largest body and its bright Occator crater salt domes.
Parker Solar Probe Perihelion, 2026
Ride along with NASA's Parker Solar Probe as it plunges just 9.85 solar radii from the Sun's center during its record-shattering 2026 perihelion encounter in 3D.
NEAR Shoemaker Orbit of Eros
Follow NEAR Shoemaker into orbit around near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros. Relive humanity's first spacecraft to orbit and gently land on an asteroid in interactive 3D.
Kepler Earth-trailing Orbit
Follow NASA's Kepler space telescope into its Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. Discover how this trailing trajectory enabled Kepler to detect thousands of distant exoplanets.
Spitzer Earth-trailing Orbit
Track NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope drifting in an Earth-trailing solar orbit. Discover how this cool orbital path allowed Spitzer to unveil the infrared universe in 3D.
James Webb and Roman at Sun-Earth L2
Explore the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point in 2026 with both the James Webb Space Telescope and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope tracing complex halo orbits 1.5 million km from Earth.
Cygnus X-1
Explore Cygnus X-1, history's first confirmed stellar-mass black hole. Watch a 21.2-solar-mass black hole and its massive blue supergiant companion dance in a tight 5.6-day orbit.
Cygnus X-3
Simulate Cygnus X-3, an enigmatic high-mass X-ray binary. Watch a compact black hole candidate whirl around a blazing Wolf–Rayet star in a blisteringly fast 4.8-hour orbital period.
Gaia BH1
Explore Gaia BH1, the closest known black hole to Earth. Watch a dormant 9.3-solar-mass black hole and its Sun-like companion star orbit their mutual barycenter in this 3D gravity simulation.
Gaia BH2
Discover Gaia BH2, a dormant 8.9-solar-mass black hole paired with a luminous red giant. Trace their wide, eccentric 1,277-day mutual orbit in this interactive 3D gravitational model.
Gaia BH3
Witness Gaia BH3, the Milky Way's most massive known stellar black hole at 32.7 solar masses. Track its dramatic 11.6-year eccentric orbit with an ancient, metal-poor giant companion.
GU Muscae
Experience GU Muscae (Nova Muscae 1991), an X-ray nova binary where a 5.7-solar-mass black hole gravitationally locks with an orange K dwarf star on a rapid 10.4-hour orbit.