Frequently asked questions

CosmoLapse is an interactive 3D atlas of the cosmos. You fly from the Local Group of galaxies into the Milky Way, the Solar System, and real exoplanet systems, and open a detail panel for any star, planet, or moon.

Click a body to fly to it, then open its panel for figures and a live summary. Use the controls to switch view, change scale, run the cinematic tour, or compare up to three worlds. Double-click a planet to enter its close-up view.

Yes. It is built for curiosity and teaching. Figures come from NASA and Wikipedia, scale modes are labelled honestly, and travel-time analogies from Earth make distances tangible.

Yes. Inside the Milky Way you can enter real exoplanet systems such as TRAPPIST-1, Proxima Centauri, Kepler-90, and 51 Pegasi. Other galaxies contain stylised, clearly labelled artistic systems.

A modern browser with WebGL is all you need. There is no backend and no account. A quality selector scales texture resolution, geometry, and effects to your hardware.

Recent versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari on desktop and mobile. Performance is best on a device with a dedicated or recent integrated GPU.

Open Settings and choose a lower quality tier, which reduces particle counts, texture resolution, and postprocessing. A reduced-motion option is available, and the atlas lowers its resolution automatically when the frame rate drops.

The full interface is available in English and Polish, detected from your browser and switchable at any time.

CosmoLapse runs entirely in your browser with no account and no analytics trackers. Preferences are saved in local storage and reference data is cached in your browser. Nothing leaves your device. See the privacy notice for details.

Write to [email protected], or use the contact page. Bug reports, feedback, and requests for new objects are all welcome.