Exosky

The night sky as seen from the known exoplanets. Pick a planet to see which stars are visible from there, where the Sun is, and how Earth's constellations change.

A constellation is not a shape in space: its stars are at very different distances and only line up from Earth. Select one and move the observer from Earth to the planet to watch it fall apart.

Draglook around (left and right follow the Milky Way)
Scrollzoom; fainter stars and nebulae appear
Clickidentify a star, nebula or constellation
/  R  Ssearch, random planet, find the Sun
C L Gconstellations, names, guides
Windowsdrag by the title bar; – minimizes

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Data: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; Hipparcos (van Leeuwen 2007); NASA Exoplanet Archive; 3D dust maps by Vergely, Lallement et al. (2022); images from the Digitized Sky Survey (STScI/NASA), Pan-STARRS1 and the Mellinger all-sky panorama, via CDS; constellation lines and star names from d3-celestial (Olaf Frohn, BSD-3). From Earth, the Milky Way and nebulae are measured or photographed. From other planets they are models: a galaxy model with the measured 3D dust, and nebula volumes shaped to match the photos from Earth. Where the real catalogue is incomplete, far from Earth, simulated stars fill the sky; they are labelled as simulated.