What's new · AstroGrid

v1.2.2 2026-05-07 Latest

New Floating Report a bug button on every legal, support, and What's new page so feedback is one click away from anywhere in the docs.
New Custom color picker for personalising marker and label colors — pick any hex shade instead of being locked to the preset palette.

Updated Settings panel gains a wider set of customisation options — fine-tune visibility toggles, label density, and marker styling to taste.

Mission markers no longer clutter the default view on first launch — they now ship hidden and stay tucked behind the visibility toggle until you turn them on.

New Account & Sign-in guide section — covers what works without an account, what an optional Google sign-in will unlock (cloud-saved custom stars and Scene Editor sequences), and how to opt out.
New Deep Links reference section — every mode, body, mission, scenario, and zone has a stable URL with a clickable sample. Includes universal query parameters (?view=, ?q=, ?debug=1).
New Static What's new page (this one) wired into the footer of every legal/support page.
New Lagrange points (L1–L5) for the Sun–Earth and Earth–Moon systems, shown as toggleable markers with stable labels.
New Keyboard shortcuts panel — a single press of ? opens a categorized cheat sheet of every shortcut.
New Mission label & visibility system — missions, probes, and constellation labels now share a unified declutter pass with smooth fade in/out.

Updated Screenshots gallery reorganised into seven themed grids: Solar System close-ups, Earth orbit & missions, Simulators & creator tools, Celestial views, Milky Way & deep space, Night sky observation, Tutorials & onboarding.
Updated Privacy policy, Terms, and User Guide updated ahead of the upcoming Google sign-in (scope, data handled, opt-out path).
Updated Pretty domains: assets now served from cdn.velonspace.com, with branch-aware hostnames for preview vs. production.
Updated Onboarding routing: first-time visitors land on /welcome; returning visitors go straight to /astrogrid. Older legacy slugs (/nightsky, /planet/earth, …) are auto-redirected.

Backend infrastructure for the upcoming sign-in (Supabase auth + a Cloudflare API Worker, isolated membership module) has been wired up. No user-facing changes yet — the login button arrives in a follow-up release.

Time-speed buttons flash when you press , or . so the keyboard mapping is obvious.
Smoother brightness and bloom transitions while a scene tour is playing.

Six mid-sized Saturn moons added with 2K surface textures: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Iapetus.
Each moon's orbit line uses its own hue, so you can tell crowded systems apart at a glance.

Moon orbit trails are now thinner than planet orbits, reducing visual noise around busy systems.

Coordinate handedness corrected so the new Saturn moons match real ephemerides.
Stopped attempting to load convention-named textures for moons that don't ship one.

Voyager 1 and 2 now have a guided fly-to camera walk along their actual trajectories.
Trajectory lines render only for the selected probe, keeping the deep-space view readable.

Scenario tours: pre-built guided sequences through key cosmic phenomena.
Gravitational lensing pass kicks in when the camera is close to massive objects.
Ambient audio bed with proper volume controls and language-aware credits.

Scene editor: keyframe-based camera playback with hold times and per-language narration overlays.
Frame snapshot tool for sharing exact views as images.

Adaptive quality kicks in when the frame rate drops, keeping the experience smooth on lower-end machines.
Search now matches looser variants of catalog tokens such as M-series, NGC, and HD.
Orbit trails fade with a 540° head-to-tail gradient, matching how moons trail planets visually.

Full Korean and English internationalization across the entire app, with smooth language transitions.
Night-sky observation mode: constellations, deep-sky objects, and a location picker for your latitude / longitude.
Background music with multi-track shuffle.
User Guide pages with shortcut tables and inline screenshots.

Procedural 3D Milky Way model with arm structure, dust lanes, and per-region brightness.
Cosmic web overlay showing superclusters, filaments, and walls at the largest scales.
Eight-tier distance scale UI with proper astronomical units (AU, ly, kly, Mly, Gly).
Deep-link sharing — copy a URL that restores the exact view, target, and camera on load.
Earth-surface labels for major countries and cities when the camera is near home.

Full solar system: planets, major moons, real orbital elements, and Kepler-based propagation.
N-body gravity simulator with a "cosmic cannon" mode — fire 14 different body types into orbit and watch the chaos unfold.
13 historical and active missions (Hubble, JWST, ISS, Apollo, Artemis, Voyager, and more).
Live satellite catalog rendered from real TLE data.
Star field at real magnitudes, with constellation lines and named bright stars.
Kepler exoplanet field with click-to-fly-to and a browsable list panel.
Photoreal galaxy sprites for nearby major galaxies, plus deep-sky objects with soft halos.
Realistic-vs-exaggerated scale toggle so you can switch between visualization and true proportions.
Glassmorphic HUD, sidebar panels, and parabolic eased camera fly-to.
Sun gravity-well shader that warps the grid, plus per-planet gravity wells for the cannon mode.
Distance attenuation and declutter logic so labels never pile up at any zoom level.