https://space.bl2.net/ What’s new on “Space Now”: a live 3D map of the Solar System, the Galaxy and the Universe en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-starsdb Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT A new checkbox «Known stars — Gaia and Hipparcos» in «Space»: 470 thousand stars in their places — all of Hipparcos and the nearest (within 300 light years) from Gaia. Colour by temperature, brightness from where you are now: fly closer and the star brightens. Click a star for a card with its spectrum (emission and class lines), distance, luminosity, radius; «Fly there» shows the star up close as a sphere. The data downloads on first use (a few MB) and is then kept in the browser. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-ambient3 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The endless screensaver «∞» now shows landing sites — the Moon, Mars, Venus, Titan — with a card at every point (photo, year, what it is known for), and group scenes: all the Apollos, the Mars rovers, the Soviet Lunas. Also: satellites and debris around Earth with catalogue numbers, the Solar System step by step out to Neptune, missions with their gravity assists and distance flown, an eclipse with a dark shadow, interstellar visitors. Pick the music with ♪ in the player, find any scene with ☰. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-scenemedia Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Stories and scenes can open windows with sound and video: mp3, clips and YouTube by link, or files from your own computer — nothing is uploaded. Before starting, a story checks that everything is in place and asks you to point to the files it needs. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-mcp2 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT New commands for AI agents (MCP). Camera: fly straight into a framing (altitude over a point, «Io against Jupiter»), orbit, look at an object, hand over following from ship to ship, CSS-like easing and overlapping steps. Objects: your own bodies on real orbits (a copy of the Sun next to Jupiter, a rock on a collision course with Earth), blinking markers, arrows, angles and labels in space — for lessons. Scenario language: own functions, conditions, seeded randomness. The endless «∞» show is rewritten in this language: no repeated scenes, ⏮⏭ browse what played, each body gets a plain-words note on what it is. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-agent Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The 🤖 button at the bottom right gives a code — hand it to your AI agent (Claude and others, via MCP) and it drives the view itself: finds an eclipse or a galaxy, flies past the planets, narrates with voice and captions, builds a presentation with ◀ ▶ buttons. A finished story is saved as a link anyone can open. Docs for agents — the «MCP ↗» link in the agent bar. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fixes1013 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Layers form a tree: Universe → Milky Way → Solar System; galaxies and clusters have checkboxes by type, and the close-approach filter sits under each planet. Constellation stars are always on stage in their own colour; up close — a living disk with spots, flares and ejections, like the Sun. The first frame no longer waits for all the graphics: the rest loads in the background (shown at the bottom). Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is where amateur observers see it (JUPOS). The Phobos map has no black patches or seams. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fixes1011 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Search finds galaxies, nebulae and clusters (when their layer is on); they have a “🔗 Link”, the chosen one is circled, a click opens its card without flying there. The clock uses your browser’s time zone — pick another with search; dates in your usual format. “Show me” here no longer reloads the page, and Back works. Zoomed out all the way — we suggest turning on the Galaxy or the Universe. The zone of avoidance is drawn as a wedge along the Galaxy’s plane. The Milky Way is one checkbox. Fewer stray labels and buttons far from the Sun, a narrow window no longer covers the panel. Site news is now also on RSS (the icon in this window). https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-eclipse Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The air over the Moon’s shadow dims by its own share of the Sun, so the shadow on Earth is dark, as in ISS photos. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-parades Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT “📅 Events” has a “🪐 Parades” tab: when many planets are in the night sky at once. Click to stand on Earth and look at them, with nothing else on screen. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-spaceweather Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Real solar flares and coronal mass ejections since 2010 fly to Earth on world time, with an arrival timer; the aurora brightens with the real storm level (Kp). Outside the data, flares follow solar statistics and are the same for everyone at a given moment. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-dots Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT With page zoom (Ctrl + wheel) satellite and body dots keep their size. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-universe Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Beyond the Galaxy: 46 thousand clusters and galaxies from catalogs, the Local Group, Andromeda, the large-scale structure, out to 2 billion light years. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-con3d Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT “✦ Constellations”: constellation stars at their real distances; fly away from the Sun and the figures fall apart. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-ffshadow Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The scene with boulder and astronaut shadows builds in Firefox again. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-astsize Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The asteroid folder shows how many megabytes it will download before you turn it on. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-nebulae Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT In the Galaxy scene — a showcase of nebulae in their places. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-gzip Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Catalogs are served compressed: asteroids are 13.6 MB instead of 19. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-firefox Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT 7–9 seconds instead of 30–40, with a “Preparing graphics” counter. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-stale Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT An old cached page with new code reloads itself. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-feedback Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The “✉ Feedback” button: what you liked, what broke, what is missing. No sign-up; we read everything ourselves. https://space.bl2.net/?t=2026-10-08T06:01:15Z&astro=%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0~-1008.311,1276.7439,-605.0285~-0.67416,-0.73477,0.07495~-0.68959,0.58985,-0.42017~p space-news-moon Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Stand on the Moon: real LOLA heights, craters, rims and rocks with shadows, your own shadow — and rock shadows on the suit. https://space.bl2.net/?t=2026-10-08T06:01:15Z&astro=%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0~-1008.311,1276.7439,-605.0285~-0.67416,-0.73477,0.07495~-0.68959,0.58985,-0.42017~p space-news-bino Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT First-person binoculars (Z) up to ×1000; 🎯 keeps the selected object centred while the Moon turns underfoot. https://space.bl2.net/?o=JUPITER&d=400000&v=0.6,0.15 space-news-clouds Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Clouds of Jupiter, Saturn and others are prepared while loading — flying up or looking through binoculars no longer freezes. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-orbits Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Orbit lines no longer jump when time is sped up. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-phone Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT On phones: joysticks, menu, search and cards as windows; landing on planets. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-aurora Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Green curtains over the polar latitudes at night — seen from space and standing on Earth. https://space.bl2.net/?t=2026-10-08T06:01:15Z&astro=%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0~-1008.311,1276.7439,-605.0285~-0.67416,-0.73477,0.07495~-0.68959,0.58985,-0.42017~p space-news-viewpoint Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Drag the little figure onto any planet or moon — stand there and watch the sky; “Copy place” gives a link to this view. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-filters Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Solar, H-alpha, rover camera, red, blue, ultraviolet — the visor slides down in front of the face. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-astlazy Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The asteroid catalog is not downloaded until you turn it on, so the site opens faster. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-places Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Labels on Earth: capitals, mountains, volcanoes, seas; click a place for a card with facts and a picture. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-approach Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The “🎯 Orbit approaches” filter: asteroids, comets and small bodies whose orbits pass close to the selected one. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-events Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Upcoming asteroid close approaches to Earth and eclipses — a click takes you to the moment and place. https://space.bl2.net/?s=25544&d=0.2&v=0.5,0.3 space-news-iss Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The station model up close and its live stream — the 📹 button on the model and in the card. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-occlude Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Dots and labels behind planets and moons no longer show through them. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-galaxy Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Galactic centre, where we are, the speeds of the Sun and the arms. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-astronaut Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Put the figure anywhere: first person, on foot, with a jetpack, third-person view. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-rocks Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Fly up to an asteroid — a boulder of its real size with relief and shadows. https://space.bl2.net/?o=GANYMEDE&d=12000&v=0.5,0.2 space-news-moonmaps Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Real maps of 16 moons (USGS); the rest get relief from descriptions: Mimas with its Herschel crater and more. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-sunwhite Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The disk centre is white with warm limb darkening, as in reality. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-fx-bloodmoon Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT In a lunar eclipse only the part in Earth’s full shadow turns copper. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-satnogs Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The catalog adds orbits from SatNOGS: amateurs track satellites missing from public lists. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-stars Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Stars, lines and constellation names; the Milky Way in its place. https://space.bl2.net/?o=SUN&d=5000000&v=0.5,0.2 space-news-live Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Sun with spots and prominences, Jupiter's storms, dusty Mars, Io's volcanoes — following the world time. https://space.bl2.net/ space-news-tour Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT An endless show to music: events, missions, eclipses.