EVERY WORLD BELOW IS BUILT FROM PARTICLES · EVERY ORBIT OBEYS KEPLER
COSMOS
The whole neighbourhood hangs under the Milky Way, genuinely moving.
Scroll to board the tour. First stop: the furnace.
no video · no images · no meshes — particles, nebulae, and mathematics
00 / THE FURNACE
THE SUN
99.86% of everything in the neighbourhood is right here, drawn in burning grains. The loops leaning off the limb are prominences, each larger than ten Earths. Every atom in you heavier than helium came out of a place like this.
- TYPE
- G2V, a yellow dwarf
- SURFACE
- 5,505 °C
- CORE
- 15,000,000 °C
- BURNS
- 600 million tonnes of hydrogen a second
- AGE
- 4.6 billion years, halfway done
- YOUR WEIGHT HERE
- enter it on Earth
press F and the surface will answer
AND ALL OF IT
FITS ON A DOT
Keep pulling back and the whole address book becomes one blue pixel.
Every person you will ever meet lives there. And there is still further to go.
10 / EXIT VELOCITY
LEAVE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
No ship goes this fast. But a scrollbar does.
Hold on.
11 / THE WIDER OCEAN
ONE OF TWO TRILLION
This is the galaxy you just left, seen from outside — something no human ever has. Every smudge of light around it is another hundred billion suns. The marker shows your street.
- DIAMETER
- 105,700 light-years
- STARS
- around 400 billion
- YOUR SUN
- one of them, two-thirds out
- NEXT DOOR
- Andromeda, closing at 110 km/s