The Sun
A photon travels at the fastest speed physics allows. Watch how slow that looks out here.
The truth
The poster
Every picture of the solar system you have ever seen is a lie.
A kind lie. Drawn honestly, the page would look blank: the Sun is 1.4 million km wide, and the map is 6 billion km wide. No poster survives that ratio.
This map does not fix the problem. It shows it to you. Sizes and distances share one scale. The emptiness is the content.
Drag or scroll to travel · click a world to lock on, then scroll to fly closer · chips jump between worlds · the slider at bottom right lets the map lie to you, on purpose
Distances removed, sizes kept honest. Every planet, moon, asteroid and dwarf shares one scale, including the wall of Sun on the left. Drag sideways. Tap a world for its numbers and its real photo.
Shrink the Sun. Keep the truth.
Kilometers past a hundred million stop meaning anything to a human brain. Meters still work. Pick an object to stand in for the Sun, and everything else scales honestly around it: sizes, distances, even the speed of light.
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