5.4.8
2024-03-17
V5.4.8
- adjusted textures a bit so that they are more clear when you approach the terrain with the ship
- adjusted character camera so that it won't look under the texture
- clouds can now be seen from inside the planets and added clouds for Mars
- made the moon texture full size because compression added some red patches on it
- fixed multiple bugs
5.4.7
2024-03-08
V5.4.7
- new section where you can download male characters and more music for free
- random rocks are spawned on most planets
- new Character menu where you can switch characters
- moved spaceships to a new spaceship menu, they are not in the flight mode settings anymore
- removed orbit lines for Sagittarius A* and some moons in the Solar System (were causing too much lag)
- more animations added for characters
- added 2 more music tracks from Scott Buckley
- many bug fixes and improvements
5.4.6
2024-02-05
V5.4.6
- you can now fly around stellar objects in the ship (stars, neutron stars, black holes, stellar pairs)
- fixed a bug where the search didn't work after a tidal lock planet search
- corrected star color for certain stellar pair types (like Wolf 227)
- adjusted Mars atmosphere so that it is blue-ish/violet at sunset
- fixed oblate stars like Achernar A
5.4.2
2023-10-24
V5.4.2
- fixed a few bugs including the shadow not showing properly on terrestrial planets
5.4.0
2023-09-20
V5.4.0 - Major database changes - 7.84 million stars
- exomoons, rogue planets, more exoplanets (with statuses added - Confirmed/Candidate/Retracted/Controversial)
- Sagittarius A* is now a custom system with 1 supermassive black hole and 44 stars
- all stellar black holes are now siphoning matter from their companion
- soft gamma repeaters now have a fossil disk around them
- moved magnetars from their own category to a subtype of neutron stars
5.3.8
2023-07-02
V5.3.8
- area in the middle of the screen where you can rotate the ship has been enlarged
- fixed a bug where the character was shaking (happened on moons)
- periods are now shown in years if they are larger than 1 year (seeing millions of days doesn't help to put things into perspective)
5.3.5
2023-06-08
V5.4.5
- random horizon color for most terrestrial exoplanets (pulsar planets and chthonians excluded)
- changed joysticks for ship and character
- 55 Cancri e changed to a proper tidally locked lava planet
- added sprint button for character
- fixed a couple of bugs
5.3.4
2023-05-30
V5.3.4
- fixed a bug for Pleiades and other star clusters (while inside the spaceship)
5.3.3
2023-05-25
V5.3.3
- adjusted scale of nebulae, while piloting the ship (stars should be larger now)
- improved/adjusted over 60 3D models using the new dark clouds
- added LDN 988, Barnard 68, the Coalsack nebula and the Pillars of Creation. Horsehead nebula changed completely
- fixed infopanel bug with oblateness (was showing WASP-12 A b as a magnetar)
- fixed a bug when you set sensitivity to 0 you couldn't move the look joystick
5.3.2
2023-05-20
V5.3.2
- can now fly inside gas giants
- added gravity
- light emitted from stars changed from white to their real color
- water worlds (non-tidally locked) will have much smaller solid cores
- bloom effect set to off by default - if you want to see brighter nebulae, set it in the flight menu settings
- can set FPS to 120
- added Dragonfish nebula
5.3.1
2023-05-05
V5.3.1
- added Andromeda and its satellite galaxies
- Underwater improvements, you can see water surface from below and if the water is deep, a more blurry vision
- can land on Earth
- tweaked atmosphere colors for water worlds, earthlikes and frozen worlds
- added Sadr region, Pistol nebula and Elephant trunk nebula
- multiple bug fixes
5.3.0
2023-04-01
V5.3.0
- added 32830 supermassive black holes including Sagittarius A* and TON 618
- search system for black holes changed and added black hole statistics
- more information shown from wikipedia for articles that exist
- added a button to hide the UI while flying or walking on the planets (this will also hide moon names if you are in our solar system)
5.2.0
2023-03-13
V5.2.0
- adjusted parameters for all water worlds, pulsar planets and frozen worlds and lava worlds
- fixed a bug with the explore menu planet icons
- fixed a bug for GG Tauri system
- added NGC 3603 and the Homunculus nebula
5.1.0
2023-03-06
V5.1.0
- now you can walk with a character on the surface of planets
- you can fly the ship to any planet or moon, but Earth and Gas Giants are protected by a force field (Landing will be possible in a future update)
- all exoplanets have been improved (shores and waves, titan has methan lakes and many more)
- GW Orionis now has two inclined disks
- new loading menu warp animation
- new ship
- adjusted time slider speed for each system
5.0.1
2022-12-08
V5.0.1
- Venus is available for flight mode
- tweaked terrain for tidally locked earthlike planets
- many bug fixes and small improvements
- added more structures (mostly supernova remnants)
4.4.6
2022-05-04
V4.4.6
- Flight mode is here! Fly in the atmosphere of all terrestrial exoplanets!
- planets are now generated using the Terrain feature (if you have a device that cannot properly render them, use the setting in the flight mode menu)
- another round of bug fixes (including long opening times)
- new search for planets (by number)
- new search for stars - pair types (weird binary pairs)
4.4.3
2022-03-30
V4.4.2
All improvements and bug fixes from Galaxy Map and Stars and Planets included: new autocomplete search feature, updated UI, newly added exoplanets in the database will appear in a panel, sizes of planets and moons adjusted to better reflect the differences between them, parent star spectral planet search
4.4.0
2022-01-08
V4.4.0
- Moons added in the solar system
- Visiting a system from the sector will have a warp animation
- planets are now 3d in the system view
- more UI improvements
- lots of bug fixes, including magnetar crash on some devices
4.3.0
2021-10-06
V4.3.0
- new UI, a tutorial and some random tips while exploring
- Improved stars and all planets' textures
- improved planets in our solar system
- a few new jovian textures, jovians have moving clouds
- lots of bug fixes and improvements (earth and saturn aurora, haumea rings)
- can now change sectors manually
4.2.0
2021-08-18
V4.2.0
- Major changes to planets: new planet types (some directly searchable - Chthonian planets, others you can encounter randomly, like low density gas giants), giants split correctly into ice and gas giants.
- a few more jupiter-like and neptune-like textures
- new planet search parameters
- fixed a lot of bugs
- be sure to check out: WASP-12, GJ 3470, V1400 Centauri, GJ 436, TrES-2, HD 93396
3.12
2018-05-19
V3.1
- fixed blocking bug
- added zoom capability on constellation images
- arranged UI a bit (some text wasn't displayed properly)
- fixed some translations
- updated libraries, performance improvements
3.1
2018-05-15
V3.1
- fixed blocking bug
- added zoom capability on constellation images
- arranged UI a bit (some text wasn't displayed properly)
- fixed some translations
- updated libraries, performance improvements
3.03
2018-02-16
V3.03
- fixed crashing bug
3.02
2018-02-10
V3.0
- all the updates from the Galaxy Map and the Star Map have been added to the PRO version (3D views for both scenes)
- recreated the Milky Way model
- updated libraries, performance improvements
1.3
2017-07-19
V1.3
- Added "Other articles" section for an easier browsing, without going back and forth.
- Added a lot of minor features and fixes.
- Performance improvements, cleaned up code.
1.2
2017-04-19
fixed images not showing in the app
1.1
2017-03-01
V2.1
- Added volume and mute button.
- Added an image preview in the structures list.
- Minor fixes and updates.