Heliosphere - Solar System

What's New in 1.15.0 Graphics - Saturn's and Uranus's rings now lie in the equatorial plane. They used to stand on edge and spin with the planet - City lights come on across Earth's night side, following the real day/night terminator - A thin blue atmosphere now shows at Earth's limb - Earth's map is now a sharper, higher-resolution image - Pluto now uses the real map from NASA's New Horizons, heart-shaped plain included - A soft glow now surrounds the Sun - Comet tails grow as comets near the Sun and vanish far from it Positional Accuracy - Planets and dwarf planets now sit on their real orbital planes. Every body used to lie flat in the ecliptic, so steeply inclined ones like Pluto and Eris were far off their own orbit lines - Fixed comets and spacecraft such as Voyager and Pioneer being drawn mirror-imaged. Halley's Comet was more than 100° away from where it really is - Orbit lines are drawn more finely, so distant bodies sit exactly on them - Orbital data for Pluto, Eris and the other dwarf planets was refitted, so the distances and periods shown are closer to the real values - Verified in 3D against JPL Horizons positions across 1900-2100 Performance - The starfield is now drawn in a single pass, greatly reducing graphics load iPhone Duo - Folding or unfolding keeps the body you're viewing and your zoom level Your favorites, achievements and streak are all preserved.