SOL / OUR CELESTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD
Solar
System.
Eight worlds.
One extraordinary star.
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01 / GRAVITY & FORM
Worlds in
perfect motion.
02 / WORLDS OF SOL
Earth
They're reflections of a virtual room.
Change the light, not the shape.
ALPHA LEONIS / 79 LIGHT-YEARS
Liquid oceans, moving clouds, and the only known home for life.
- MEAN DISTANCE
- 1 AU
- ORBITAL PERIOD
- 1 year
How this comparison works
Same 4 m/s take-off on each rocky planet; no air resistance. Playback is 0.6× speed. Astronaut and jump distance are enlarged for visibility. Venus is shown with its cloud layer, not an exposed surface.
Gravity values: NASA/JPLIllustrative orbits, not live. Spacecraft and orbit heights enlarged. Time: 60x.
A rapidly rotating blue-white star, approximately 79 light-years from Earth.
- Regulus Blue-white
- 79 ly
- Algieba Golden
- 130 ly
- Denebola White
- 36 ly
An apparent pattern, not a physical cluster. Sculptures and energy are artistic interpretations; depth is compressed.
HYG v4.1 / David Nash / CC BY-SA 4.003 / YOUR OWN UNIVERSE