Where do you
want to go?
Start close to home or jump across the observable universe. Space connects worlds, moons, missions, observatories and cosmic phenomena so every answer opens another route.
The cosmos is easier to understand when everything connects.
Follow a destination, a machine, an observation method or a physical process. The routes cross-link so a moon can lead to its planet, the mission that explored it and the science question that made it important.
Solar System
Planets, dwarf planets, moons and the star that holds them together.
Go there →01DEEP SPACEDeep Space
Galaxies, nebulae and landmarks beyond our planetary neighborhood.
Go there →02MISSIONSMissions
Follow spacecraft to the worlds they explored and the questions they were built to answer.
Go there →03OBSERVATORIESObservatories
See the universe through infrared, visible light, ultraviolet and X-rays.
Go there →04PHENOMENAPhenomena
Black holes, supernovae, exoplanets, dark matter and the processes linking the cosmos.
Go there →05COSMIC SCALEScale
Compare sizes and move from moons to planets, stars and galaxies.
Go there →06Nine doors into Space.
There is no single correct route. Pick a world, a mission or a mystery and follow the connections outward.
Jupiter
The largest planet, a gas giant with powerful storms, a vast magnetic environment and a miniature system of moons.
Explore →moonEuropa
An icy moon of Jupiter with strong evidence for a salty ocean beneath its surface.
Explore →planetSaturn
A gas giant encircled by the solar system’s most extensive and visually prominent ring system.
Explore →galaxyMilky Way
Our home galaxy: a barred spiral containing the Sun, the solar system and hundreds of billions of stars.
Explore →black holeSagittarius A*
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Explore →observatoryJames Webb Space Telescope
A large infrared observatory studying the early universe, stars, planets and exoplanet atmospheres.
Explore →missionVoyager 2
The only spacecraft to have visited all four giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Explore →phenomenonExoplanets
Planets orbiting stars beyond the Sun, now known by the thousands across the Milky Way.
Explore →stellar nurseryPillars of Creation
Towering columns of gas and dust inside the Eagle Nebula, made famous by Hubble and later revisited by Webb.
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