Galaxy Map - Stars and Planets5.7.7 - App Store

Experience the captivating wonders of the cosmos with Galaxy Map - Stars and Planets, an interactive 3D planetarium powered by precise data obtained from NASA and ESA space missions. Delve into a profound expedition through the infinite expanse of space, where an abundance of knowledge is readily available, directly sourced from the forefront of groundbreaking space research.

Traverse the vast expanse of the galaxy, soaring through the stardust as you journey to millions of stars. Land on alien planets and exomoons, where breathtaking landscapes and untold wonders await your arrival. Embrace the thrill of plunging into the turbulent atmospheres of gas giants to reach their elusive cores.

This app includes both the "Galaxy Map" and "Stars and Planets" apps, with all their in-app purchases included (and future addons).

Push the boundaries of exploration as you venture closer to black holes, pulsars and magnetars, where the laws of physics are stretched to their limits.

With Galaxy Map - Stars and Planets, the entire universe becomes your playground, providing an unmatched platform for discovery and enlightenment.

Features

▶ Immersive spacecraft simulation allowing users to fly to different planets and moons and explore the depths of gas giants

▶ Land on exoplanets and take command of a character, exploring the unique surfaces of these distant worlds

▶ Daily updated information on exoplanets from multiple sources, eliminating the need for manual application updates

▶ Extensive online database encompassing approximately 7.85 million stars, over 7500 exoplanets, 205 circumstellar disks, 32868 black holes, 3344 pulsars and over 150 moons in our Solar System (plus exomoons)

▶ Comprehensive search system for efficient data retrieval of stellar and substellar objects

▶ Global accessibility with support for over 100 languages

Data imported from various sources including: SIMBAD, The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, NASA Exoplanet Archive, Planet Habitability Laboratory

Join my discord server so you can see what new features are planned in the future or if you simply want to talk about space related stuff:

https://discord.gg/dyeu3BR

If you have a PC/Mac you can also access Stars and Planets from your browser here:

https://galaxymap.net/webgl/index.html

Version History V5.7.7
- Added supersector and now you can see nebulae in sectors
- aligned moons with their parent planet's axial tilt
- fixed Fomalhaut's black stars
- added "Narrow camera pitch" in the flight mode settings if you want not to be limited when looking up/down
- fixed autocomplete with new entries
- Quaoar texture is now red 5.7.7 4d ago V5.7.6
- fixed: imperial units in the info panel, mission reminder notification, names are no longer hidden behind the planet if the moon is in front of it, fixed some moons' models and added a default texture for those that did not have any - example Amalthea
- corrected position of planets in the Solar System based on the current time
- when you zoom out after centering a gas giant (Jupiter), you can now see all the moons and their orbits 5.7.6 Oct 2 V5.7.5
- added missions and a profile menu with stats. Gain ranks and unlock new ships and characters
- monthly leaderboards and flag rankings
- new discoveries now shows changes in addition to new exoplanets found
- can now move freely from Galaxy Map to Stars and Planets
- many bug fixes 5.7.5 Sep 12 V5.7.4
- fixed inverse sun rise and set
- some UI/UX improvements (infopanel orbital drawing fix)
- improved character controls
- fix for some crashes 5.7.4 May 12 V5.7.3
- more alien flora and new sets of rock formations on lava worlds, pulsar planets and even barren worlds with no atmosphere
- rocks should not spawn on top of other vegetation anymore and object loading process was optimized
- fixed visual bug when underwater on waterworlds
- fixed thrusters/shield switching to custom color sometimes
- fixed tidally locked earthlikes sometimes rotating out of place
- on tidally locked earthlikes alien flora will only spawn on the terminator line
- possibly fixed the bug when falling through the ground
- Earth will have different types of trees based on certain regions (tropical/etc)
- fixed a bug where the music tracks were cut off at 1m 30s
- fixed a bug where Venus had a weird shadow above the character 5.7.3 Mar 29 V5.7.2
- Added volcanoes for lava worlds and trees/flora for earthlike planets
- Fixed a bug where flags disappeared when using the time slider
- Fixed Malaysia flag
- Fixes to display new exomoons (+ comparison menu)
- Objects no longer spawn underwater (rocks) 5.7.2 Feb 25 V5.7.1
- can now place a flag on each terrestrial planet visited (only one per planet/moon)
- added leaderboard of countries with most placed flags
- added settings option to be able to always place flags (but still only the first one on that planet counts towards the leaderboard)
- fixed a bug where this glow was displaced from the Sun 5.7.1 Feb 11 V5.7.0
- Fixed the info panel mass value for planets with very low mass, such as PG 1647+376 b

- Smoother ship movement
- Fixed an issue where the loading text was too small 5.7.0 Jan 2 V5.6.10
-fixed height and ocean issue on tidally locked terrestrials like Proxima Centauri b 5.6.10 10/27/2025 V5.6.9
- fixed some ships and characters not showing up when trying to switch to them
- updated all plugins to their latest version 5.6.9 09/19/2025 V5.6.8
- fixed super-puff visual bug
- trying to fix an old crash from a google library
- updated all plugins to their latest version 5.6.8 04/30/2025 V5.6.7
- ship disintegrates when reaching a black hole (if invincible mode is not set)
- fixed a bug where it snowed on the moon and another one related to puffy jovians
- default colors for shields and thrusters added, so you can switch faster between them 5.6.7 02/20/2025 V5.6.6
- fixed ship being shown next to character
- a few improvements for low end devices that may reduce the chance of crashes
- main menu random planet fix 5.6.6 01/28/2025 V5.6.5
- tidally locked earthlike textures improved (2 new textures for M/K parent stars) and using the old green texture for G-type parent stars (none found so far)
- improved performance a bit and updated libraries
- fixed alien soldier not disappearing and character lights are visible when character is hidden 5.6.5 01/21/2025 V5.6.4
- improved lighting for pulsar planets in the system view
- fixed lighting for planets in binary pair systems (system view)
- made Titan's atmosphere a little more dense and slightly adjusted Pluto's atmosphere
- fixed ship lights toggle and now you can have the ship lights on while the ship is hidden 5.6.4 12/16/2024 V5.6.3
- adjusted Pluto's atmosphere a bit
- 55 Cancri A e can be visited offline (was a local database issue)
- changed Twitter icon to X 5.6.3 11/11/2024 V5.6.2
- now when you choose a system from the search results, all its stellar and substellar objects will show up and you can warp directly to them
- fixed a bug where the main menu would be hidden after a connection issue
- fixed a bug with the sound system where you couldn't change the track
- changed animations for Alien soldiers and Cyborgs so that they look more aggressive
- added Invincible mode in settings, default is set to Off, but if set to On - you won't die in lava
- all the textures are no longer loaded at the same time in the beginning of the app, but loaded if needed, thus improving performance
- fixed thrusters for Terran Fighter
- smaller grid size in the galactic structures sections
- fixed a bug with loading an object from the galactic structures menu 5.6.2 11/10/2024 V5.6.0
- new ship skins (4 for Alien Fighter, 2 for Terran Fighter, 3 for Alien Destroyer, 3 for Dragon Frigate, 3 for Federation Corvette)
- custom shield and thruster colors
- removed shadow layers for planets without moons, this should increase performance
- fixed companion classification in infopanel for brown dwarfs
- fixed a bug with the flashlights for characters
- fixed dust seen after dying in the gas giant core 5.6.0 10/22/2024 V5.5.7
- swimming in lava will trigger a death animation and you will respawn on the ship
- can now land on the core of gas giants which will trigger a death animation, and you will respawn on the ship
- new free ship - Federation corvette and new paid ship Dragon frigate with a cyborg character
- improved spaceship and character menu and fixed thrusters not showing in all menus
- tidally locked water worlds, earthlike and lava world exoplanets look different in the system view than their non-tidally locked counterparts
- small fix for some moons in our Solar System that were not visible
- added a model for Anthe, Methone and Pallene (moons of Saturn) and fixed a bug where they were hidden when zooming in
- added sounds for lights on/off, shield on, underwater (ship and player), inside lava (ship), footsteps on different types of planets, death sounds
- can now access sound menu from the flight mode settings menu and can choose which tracks to play (in a loop)
- ship moves at 1/2 speed in water and 1/4 speed in lava
- roll buttons are shown when they are pressed in ship mode
- fixed a bug where the shadow of a jovian exoplanet wasn't shown on its moon
- fixed a bug with the radius/mass not being displayed properly in the infopanel
- fixed a bug where you couldn't land on any planet after visiting a gas giant core
- fixed a bug where a blue line appeared over the horizon between the water and the sky - on earthlike planets
- fixed an old bug where the core of a gas giant (only for rogue gas giants and semi-detached disks) was disappearing when reaching a certain range with the ship 5.5.7 09/05/2024 V5.5.5
- new terrestrial textures and more variety for venusians, barren terrestrials, frozen worlds and pulsar planets
- more height maps are included so you should notice that certain terrain features and craters are better represented
- texture color variations for all giant exoplanets 5.5.5 08/02/2024 V5.5.4
- added more variety to terrain colors for pulsar planets, lava worlds (hints of blue/violet), venusians and unknown terrestrial planets
- fixed a bug where the gas giant core wasn't shown 5.5.4 07/27/2024 V5.5.3
- snowing at the south and north poles of Mars and Earth; Dust storms on Mars
- added weather sounds (rain, arctic wind, dust storm)
- shadows of moons visible now on parent planet (and viceversa)
- added alien characters for users that bought the all-in pack or one of the alien ships
- added a few default languages for offline usage
- can now land on unknown planets (that are shown as terrestrials) like GJ 357 e
- if you switched look and move joysticks, the jump button will be on the other side
- fixed a bug where turning off warp animation also turned off the UI
- fixed a bug where the purchase menu wasn't shown when too close to the terrain
- fixed an issue when the orbits in a binary were desynchronized
- hopefully fixed the issue with the player going under the texture
- fixed an issue with circumbinary planets (GJ 900)
- fixed a possible crash when exiting from the surface all the way up to the main menu
- fixed a bug where going to Pluto and then Charon would make you fall towards the first planet visited when exiting the ship
- adjusted Europa's height map a bit
- fixed a bug where the time slider rotated the planet using a bad angle
- reduced ship thruster volume 5.5.3 06/30/2024 V5.5.2
- added weather on lava worlds, frozen worlds, non-tidally locked earthlikes, Titan, Enceladus, Pluto
- 7 bug fixes, details are on discord
- ship rolling speed doubled 5.5.2 06/11/2024 V5.5.1
- changed a few parameters hopefully this will fix the clipping through the ground bug
- fixed a visual bug where the system snapped after you warped to it
- ship menu (moved button and thrusters are now visible only when the shield is active)
- Proxima was showing 0 years in the comparison tab of the infopanel
- Eclipsing binary of Algol type (like BU Canis Minoris) are properly shown as much closer
- Results button is not hidden anymore after returning from flight mode (if it was visible before)
- fixed lighting while warping to a planet in a binary system 5.5.1 05/28/2024 V5.5.0
- all rocks have high quality colliders so you won't run into an invisible wall
- when entering the spaceship, planets are always in front of it
- adjusted star scaling for all planets with atmospheres
- adjusted pulsar rotation
- added the Solar System in the favorites section, to access it faster
- fixed ~12 bugs, full list on discord 5.5.0 05/23/2024