Around The Block Explorer

Explore 31 star systems: Our Sun, its 10 nearest neighbors, and famous stars and worlds out to 2,940 light-years.

View our Sun in the sky from other worlds

New systems and discoveries are added with free updates — the universe keeps growing.

Explore the universe from the surface up

Every feature is grounded in real published data from NASA, ESA, and peer-reviewed catalogs.

The Stellar Neighborhood

A real 3D map of every star system in the app. Drag to orbit, zoom out to see the full neighborhood, tap a star to visit. Sol sits at the center with its nearest neighbors labeled by name and distance in light-years.

Galaxy map showing nearby star systems

Full Body Profiles

Every planet, dwarf planet, and moon gets a full 3D model you can orbit. View real physical data — mass, radius, temperature, orbital period — and tap "View Full Profile" for the complete science card linked to official NASA pages.

Saturn with rings - full body profile

Alpha Centauri — Our Nearest Star

A triple-star system just 4.37 light-years away. Explore Proxima Centauri and its confirmed planets b, c, and d. Tap "Find Sol" to locate our Sun from their perspective — a faint star in an alien sky.

Alpha Centauri triple star system

T Coronae Borealis — The Blaze Star

A red giant so close to its white-dwarf companion that hydrogen streams between them in a fiery accretion disk. Watch the mass transfer in 3D, then trigger the nova to see what happens when the pressure ignites.

T Coronae Borealis binary system with accretion

TRAPPIST-1 — Seven Worlds

Seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a single ultracool dwarf star 40.7 light-years away. TRAPPIST-1 e sits in the habitable zone — a terrestrial world where liquid water could exist on the surface.

TRAPPIST-1 system with seven planets

Spacetime Curvature Grid

Watch a three-dimensional lattice of geodesics bend and warp around each star. The more massive the star, the deeper the well. Sirius, Betelgeuse, and every system in between — visualized in real time as you orbit.

Spacetime curvature grid around Sirius

The Sky From Barnard c

Stand on Barnard c and find our Sun in the sky — magnitude 1.1, just 5.9 light-years away. The constellations are altered: Gemini, Orion, Monoceros, and Canis Major all shift from this new vantage point. Every sky is computed from real stellar positions.

The sky from Barnard c with altered constellations

The Night Side of Wolf 1061 b

A tidally locked world where the sun never rises on the night side. Our Sun appears at magnitude 3.0, 14 light-years away. Taurus and Orion are altered from here — familiar shapes stretched by the shift in perspective.

The sky from Wolf 1061 b - tidally locked world

Eclipse Chasers

Every total and hybrid solar eclipse through 2051, city by city. The August 2, 2027 eclipse crosses Morocco, Spain, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Somalia — 6 minutes 23 seconds of totality. Set a reminder and never miss one.

Eclipse chasers with path map

Scope Matchmaker

Three questions, one honest recommendation. No brand deals — just the setups astronomy clubs point beginners toward. Then see what each world actually looks like through a backyard telescope: Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, and beyond.

Scope Matchmaker telescope quiz

Built From Real, Published Astronomy

Every star and planet gets its size, mass, temperature, distance, and orbit from peer-reviewed sources. Each body's profile links to its official NASA page when available. Where data is missing, we fill gaps with honest guesswork — and tell you exactly where.

Sources: NASA Exoplanet Archive • SIMBAD • HYG Database • IAU • ESA Gaia DR3

About the Science page

Red Night Mode

Preserves your night vision at the telescope. The entire interface shifts to deep red — no blue light leaking into your dark-adapted eyes. Plus battery saver mode, softer haptics, and your choice of Scientific, Metric, or Imperial units.

Red night mode settings
31
Star Systems
100+
Celestial Bodies
41,487
Background Stars
20
Solar Eclipses

... and counting

31 systems. Real data. Real distances.

From our own Solar System to deep-sky landmarks thousands of light-years away.

Sol
Single Star
0.00 ly
Alpha Centauri
Triple Star
4.37 ly
Barnard's Star
Single Star
5.96 ly
Luhman 16
Binary Brown Dwarf
6.50 ly
WISE 0855-0714
Sub-Brown Dwarf
7.43 ly
Wolf 359
Single Star
7.86 ly
Lalande 21185
Single Star
8.31 ly
Sirius
Binary Star
8.66 ly
Luyten 726-8
Binary Star
8.79 ly
Ross 154
Single Star
9.70 ly
Ross 248
Single Star
10.30 ly
Ross 128
Single Star
11.01 ly
Tau Ceti
Single Star
11.91 ly
Wolf 1061
Single Star
14.05 ly
40 Eridani
Triple Star
16.34 ly
Teegarden's Star
Single Star
12.50 ly
GJ 667 C
Triple Star
23.62 ly
LHS 1140
Single Star
40.70 ly
TRAPPIST-1
Single Star
40.66 ly
TOI-700
Single Star
101.40 ly
K2-18
Single Star
124.00 ly
Kepler-186
Single Star
582.00 ly
Kepler-442
Single Star
1,206 ly
Kepler-452
Single Star
1,402 ly
Polaris
Triple Star
447 ly
Betelgeuse
Single Star
700 ly
Mintaka / Alnitak / Alnilam
Orion's Belt
~1,200 ly
T Coronae Borealis
Binary Star
2,940 ly

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