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Show HN: Jupiter and Its 79 Moons

27 pointsby typpoover 5 years ago

5 comments

tonyover 5 years ago
Fantastic. Starred.<p>Could the library that built this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typpo.github.io&#x2F;spacekit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typpo.github.io&#x2F;spacekit&#x2F;</a> &#x2F; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;typpo&#x2F;spacekit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;typpo&#x2F;spacekit</a>) be used to replace <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eyes.nasa.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eyes.nasa.gov</a>?<p>Application ideas: Wikipedia could embed something like this in astronomy pages. Or other way around, wikipedia could be integrated into the app itself if something is clicked on, a wikipedia entry comes up. Or a sidebar with artifacts in the solar system with a search+autocomplete, and clicking it zooms to it+brings up info.<p>So many possibilities my man. It&#x27;s also smooth at the fastest speed.<p>TypeScript is amazing by the way. If you started it, I think you&#x27;re a potential candidate to feel the benefits of it with spacekit.
walrus01over 5 years ago
the wikipedia pages for moons of jupiter and saturn are quite thorough:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moons_of_Jupiter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moons_of_Jupiter</a><p>Zooming out in this visualization and changing the view angle a bit really helps to understand how jupiter sort of functions like a solar system vacuum cleaner, grabbing up loose objects that on multi-million year time scales happen to cross its orbit.
happppyover 5 years ago
How can I detect collision between different objects and is there any way to add custom sprites or svg elements?
ncmncmover 5 years ago
Any explanation for the huge gap beyond Callisto?
proc0over 5 years ago
79? Dammit Jupiter stop hogging all the moons.