FLIGHT
W / ↑main engine — thrust along the nose
S / ↓reverse thrust
A / D, ← / →rotate ship
Q / ERCS lateral translation
SHIFT×4 boost (needed to lift off Earth)
Z / Xthrottle ÷ / × — no upper limit
T / Yhold prograde / retrograde
AUTOPILOT
SHIFT+Ttravel to the focused body / star
SHIFT+Ccircularize current orbit
SHIFT+Xautopilot off (any manual input takes over)
TIME
1 – 9time warp presets: real time … 1 yr/s
, / .warp ÷2 / ×2 — up to 1 Byr/s
SPACEpause
CAMERA & SCALE
Fcamera focus: ship → moon → earth → sun
SHIFT+Fcycle the planets (Mercury … Neptune)
Ccycle Solar / Milky Way / Local Group scale
Ucycle nearby stellar destinations
SHIFT+Ubrowse active stars / search HYG catalog
Jtoggle in-ship cabin view
0 / click labelfocus ship / focus body
hold-drag shipgrab the ship, release with damped velocity
RMB dragpan — free camera, detached from any body
VISUALIZATION
Ptrajectory prediction on/off
Gspacetime river view on/off
SHIFT+Gconstellation guide lines on/off
Odark-energy expansion on/off
SHIFT+OMilky Way dark-matter halo on/off
BLACK HOLES
Bplacement mode; click the plane to place
ESCexit black-hole placement mode
N / click BHfocus next black hole + telemetry
[ / ]size: r_s 1 m … 5,000,000 km
Vremove last black hole
SYSTEM
Itoggle limited-fuel challenge mode
Mmute sound
Rrestart in low Earth orbit
K / Lquicksave / quickload (browser storage)
SHIFT+Stravel simulations menu
Hthis help
Physics runs live: RK4 world motion for Earth, Sun, Moon, planets, and
black holes, with Earth-local high-precision ship dynamics for launch,
landing, and atmosphere. All seven planets are in, true radii and μ,
each with its own SOI; you can land on the rocky ones.
Exponential Earth atmosphere below 160 km.
Black holes are real point masses (μ = r_s·c²/2) with the Paczyński–Wiita
potential for ISCO and capture. The river view follows v = √(2μ/r) and
uses a small visual core for tiny holes so their local direction stays readable. Dark energy adds the physical ΛCDM a = ΩΛH₀²r term,
visible from stellar-balance scale upward, and Shift+O adds the Milky Way dark-matter halo. Cosmic scale adds HYG real-star catalog points with estimated mass/radius/luminosity/temperature,
generated world-space stars, nearby named stars,
the Milky Way disk, Andromeda, Triangulum, and Local Group dwarf bodies.
Nearby named stars and a capped HYG physical subset are destinations with true light-year 3D RA/declination positions,
photosphere contact, and gravity in the live field. Holes and planets move through the live n-body field.
Drag to orbit the camera, scroll to zoom.
Aim for the Moon, capture orbit, land, come home — or dive into something dark.