Every sunrise you see is already our Sun’s history.
Sunlight takes roughly eight minutes to reach Earth. TimelyUNA transforms that delay into an interactive astronomy experience you can see, explore, and remember.
Compare Visible Now with Actual Now. Launch the Nowonaut toward the Sun’s current position and follow the LightLine across the gap between what reaches your eyes and what is happening now.
Use the celestial finder and Live Celestial AR to turn toward astronomical targets and explore light-time geometry in the sky around you. TimelyUNA combines astronomical calculations based on date, time, and location with approachable visual storytelling.
Explore the Whole System in augmented reality, with enlarged planets and compressed distances that make the entire solar system easier to picture. Move smoothly through time and watch the planets go retrograde from Earth’s perspective. Compare their orbits with Earth’s sky trace, then open the Guide to understand how the model corresponds to what you see in the actual night sky.
Travel farther with Pluto & Beyond: explore distant worlds alongside New Horizons and both Voyager spacecraft. Learn about the selected object and the time its light takes to reach Earth.
Watch a beach change from night to morning in a replayable AR sunrise. Explore an exaggerated two-Sun light-delay illustration, open the Guide, and hear Bach’s Air begin with the yellow Sun. Pause, replay, scrub through the scene, or mute the soundtrack.
Discover the moon families of Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and dwarf planet Pluto. Explore schematic diagrams, search all 461 moons in a bundled NASA/JPL snapshot, and compare their orbital periods, distances, and known sizes. Named moons and provisional designations are included, with sources and explanations in the Guide.
Features include:
• Visible Now and Actual Now comparisons
• A live Earth–Sun photon-delay display
• The interactive Nowonaut launch and xLink sequencer
• LightLine visualizations
• Celestial finding and augmented-reality experiences
• Whole System and Pluto & Beyond exploration
• Retrograde explanations and an Earth-view sky trace
• Smooth date controls and on-demand Papyrus guides
• Responsive glass controls and tap haptics
• Optional Bach Air, Mozart Jupiter, and Beethoven Moonlight soundtracks
• Horizon, Dawn, and extended-sky explorations
TimelyUNA is made for curious adults, intelligent young explorers, families, educators, stargazers, and anyone who has ever looked upward and wondered what “now” means in a universe ruled by light.
The orbital models use approximate educational geometry, enlarged objects, and compressed distances. They are arranged for exploration; use Real sky for the selected planet’s current sky direction. Spacecraft positions use saved NASA/JPL data and predictions, not live telemetry.
The Stars are always late to the party. The Sun is ahead of its own Dawn.
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