The Milky Way above Earth

A map that makes space feel real

If the Sun were a tennis ball, where would the nearest star be?

Make your current location the Sun, shrink it to a tennis ball, a grain of sand, or an atom, then watch famous stars land across Earth. It turns impossible space distances into places you can actually recognize.

Pick a star, change scale, feel the distance

Map

Scaled from your location

Location

Finding your position Allow location access so the Sun can be placed where you are.
Stars are placed directly on the map at scaled distance.
2.2 light-years 1,000 km on map
Your location: Sun Around Earth once: 88 light-years at this scale
Choose stars 1 of 12 shown

About

A human-scale map of famous star distances

Star Scale Map is an interactive astronomy scale model. It uses your current location as the Sun, then places well-known stars and cosmic distance references on a real Earth map at the selected scale.