AstraPixels
A pixel-art solar system at its real current positions.
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An animated pixel-art map of the solar system with every body at its real current position, computed from published orbital elements rather than copied from a list. Zoom from the Sun to the Kuiper belt, browse 171 catalogued objects with sourced facts, and see what the sky is doing for the next six months. Every rock is also for sale: claim an asteroid for $5, keep it forever, name it whatever you like. A name here is shown on AstraPixels only, and is not an IAU designation.
PH · launched Aug 8, 2026 · 266 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views
Niche: data and scientific visualization tools · 146 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Web App
- Art
- Advertising
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Could you build this?
Yes The project uses existing open-source orbital mechanics libraries (like astronomy-engine) to calculate planetary positions and visualizes them on a 2D canvas/pixel-art map with standard Next.js frontend tech.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 145 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #49 of 146 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 271 days after the earliest competitor.
- The Celestialer's Orrery · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Perigee · ph · 2026-10-12 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SOLAR · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- astranav · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OrbitStudio · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Reality ASM · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites · hn · 2026-09-29 · 405 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- moon-surface · github · 2026-10-17 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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