Spiral Galaxy
A galaxy is a huge family of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.
This picture is a cloud of paint. You can , , , , , , and .
Paint with your finger. It stays on these splats, wherever they go next.
Your paint is on this cloud. to see the sharp picture.
- Shelf
- Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play
Tap to swirl the arms. Pick a galaxy style in the Splash tab.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swirl the arms | Tap | ||
| Swirl | Button | ||
| Style | List | 2 choices | Milky Way-like |
About it
A galaxy is a huge family of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity. In a spiral galaxy, bright arms curl out from a glowing center. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral about 100,000 light-years across with hundreds of billions of stars, and the Sun takes about 230 million years to go around it once.
Here the spiral turns slowly as one piece while its stars orbit, the inner ones faster. The splash illustrates one idea for spiral arms: a moving density pattern that stars pass through, like traffic through a jam. Real galaxies can also have changing arms. Tap it to swirl the arms once around, fast, while the core flares. Pick the Milky Way or Andromeda style in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 80,000 at Mid Detail, 52,800 at Low, and up to 170,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Share it
This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.
https://splashery.app/play/?toy=spiral-galaxy
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="spiral-galaxy"></splashery-toy>
Nearby
Star ClusterA globular cluster is a ball of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by their own gravity, packed tightest at the middle.
NebulaA nebula is a huge cloud of gas and dust in space.
Star ExplorerEvery star within about 65 light-years (20 parsecs) of the Sun, where it really is: about 2,200 stars measured by ESA's Gaia spacecraft, from the tiny shift of each star's position as Earth goes round the Sun.
Powers of TenEvery step of the zoom is ten times the last: the label names the power of ten, what you see and its size, and where the picture or data comes from, and the bar shows a round length at that scale.