Vanyx.Space

Sources & limits

A real sky, with its unknowns left intact.

What you’re seeing

Observations: Published catalogues supply object identities, measured properties and positions. Images retain their source credits. Missing distances and chemical measurements stay unknown.
Models: Orbits, stellar surfaces, exposure and unresolved worlds use models with named assumptions. Exoplanet terrain and colours are illustrations, not surface photographs. Enlarged markers help you navigate; they do not change physical sizes or separations.
Time & light: The scene clock advances model positions. It does not make every pixel a view down your past light cone. Selected Solar System and Galactic-centre objects offer separate, qualified light-path calculations. These are not a full relativistic renderer.
Cosmic overview: The widest view is an observer-centred, false-colour WMAP last-scattering diagram. Its centre marks our Solar observing reference, not the centre of the Universe. It is not a photograph of the Universe from outside.
Coverage: The visible stars are a bounded catalogue sample. Distant structure includes density models. An empty region can mean missing observations; it does not prove that space is empty.
Freshness: Data are reviewed snapshots. Updates are staged and verified before release. The scene date does not update photographs, weather or measured composition. Object details and the notices below identify sources and editions.
Albert: Albert is an AI guide. Its generated explanations can be wrong. Check the linked sources and object measurements; neither the guide nor this explorer is a flight-navigation instrument.

Credits & source notices

These notices come from the exact installed public edition. They record upstream attribution, licences and qualifications. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.