The Sun's Changing Neighborhood

stars with full 6-D astrometry, integrated through the Galactic potential over ±5 Myr. Drag to orbit · scroll to zoom · click a star, click it again to clear.

today
drag the slider, or grab the cursor line in the chart time is log-spaced either side of now — the next 10,000 years take a tenth of the axis, not a five-hundredth. A selected star's bar is its 16th–84th percentile closest approach.
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