For Your Astronomers: An Interactive Orrery

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Link: Solar System Orrery by Jeroen Gommers

 

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...To keep things simple, several properties of the planets’ orbits such as their shape, inclination and eccentricity have been greatly simplified, as well as the sizes and distances of the planets themselves. This sacrificed some accuracy but kept things from getting too complex. The result is a simple and playful interactive that really engages the user...

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Link: NASA/JPL Eyes