5.4.1
V5.4.1
- all planets have been improved and are 100x larger
- terrain doesn't look as flat, you will notice mountains/hills more often
- proper shadow on the back of the planet
- ship and character have lights
- Haumea has been improved (+has a different ring)
- tidally locked exoplanets have been improved
5.4.0
V5.4.0 - Major database changes - 7.84 million stars
- exomoons, rogue planets, more exoplanets (with statuses added - Confirmed/Candidate/Retracted/Controversial)
- Sagittarius A* is now a custom system with 1 supermassive black hole and 44 stars
- all stellar black holes are now siphoning matter from their companion
- soft gamma repeaters now have a fossil disk around them
- moved magnetars from their own category to a subtype of neutron stars
5.3.8
V5.3.8
- area in the middle of the screen where you can rotate the ship has been enlarged
- fixed a bug where the character was shaking (happened on moons)
- periods are now shown in years if they are larger than 1 year (seeing millions of days doesn't help to put things into perspective)
5.3.7
V3.2.6
- added time slider for character when you land on terrestrial planets(non tidally-locked). You can now watch sunrises and sunsets.
- forced to add a consent dialog for for EU users, some GDPR stuff (one time only, when you enter the app)
- many bug fixes, including some old ones
5.3.6
V5.3.6
- aligned character look axis with ship look axis
- fixed a couple of bugs
5.3.5
V5.4.5
- random horizon color for most terrestrial exoplanets (pulsar planets and chthonians excluded)
- changed joysticks for ship and character
- 55 Cancri e changed to a proper tidally locked lava planet
- added sprint button for character
- fixed a couple of bugs
5.3.4
V5.3.4
- fixed a bug for Pleiades and other star clusters (while inside the spaceship)
5.3.3
V5.3.3
- adjusted scale of nebulae, while piloting the ship (stars should be larger now)
- improved/adjusted over 60 3D models using the new dark clouds
- added LDN 988, Barnard 68, the Coalsack nebula and the Pillars of Creation. Horsehead nebula changed completely
- fixed infopanel bug with oblateness (was showing WASP-12 A b as a magnetar)
- fixed a bug when you set sensitivity to 0 you couldn't move the look joystick
5.3.2
V5.3.2
- can now fly inside gas giants
- added gravity
- light emitted from stars changed from white to their real color
- water worlds (non-tidally locked) will have much smaller solid cores
- bloom effect set to off by default - if you want to see brighter nebulae, set it in the flight menu settings
- can set FPS to 120
- added Dragonfish nebula
5.3.1
V5.3.1
- added Andromeda and its satellite galaxies
- Underwater improvements, you can see water surface from below and if the water is deep, a more blurry vision
- can land on Earth
- tweaked atmosphere colors for water worlds, earthlikes and frozen worlds
- added Sadr region, Pistol nebula and Elephant trunk nebula
- multiple bug fixes
5.3.0
V5.3.0
- added 32830 supermassive black holes including Sagittarius A* and TON 618
- search system for black holes changed and added black hole statistics
- more information shown from wikipedia for articles that exist
- added a button to hide the UI while flying or walking on the planets (this will also hide moon names if you are in our solar system)
5.2.0
Mar 11, 2023
V5.2.0
- adjusted parameters for all water worlds, pulsar planets and frozen worlds and lava worlds
- fixed a bug with the explore menu planet icons
- fixed a bug for GG Tauri system
- added NGC 3603 and the Homunculus nebula
5.1.0
Mar 6, 2023
V5.1.0
- now you can walk with a character on the surface of planets
- you can fly the ship to any planet or moon, but Earth and Gas Giants are protected by a force field (Landing will be possible in a future update)
- all exoplanets have been improved (shores and waves, titan has methan lakes and many more)
- GW Orionis now has two inclined disks
- new loading menu warp animation
- new ship
- adjusted time slider speed for each system
5.0.1
Dec 7, 2022
V5.0.1
- Venus is available for flight mode
- tweaked terrain for tidally locked earthlike planets
- many bug fixes and small improvements
- added more structures (mostly supernova remnants)
5.0.0
Nov 19, 2022
V5.0.0 - Huge update
- latest versions of Stars and Planets and Galaxy Map included with its own menu where you can choose which app to start
- Galaxy Map has greately improved 3D models now
- Stars and Planets has dozens of new improvements and features
- All ships included
V4.4.6
- Flight mode is here! Fly in the atmosphere of all terrestrial exoplanets!
- planets are now generated using the Terrain feature (if you have a device that cannot properly render them, use the setting in the flight mode menu)
- another round of bug fixes (including long opening times)
- new search for planets (by number)
- new search for stars - pair types (weird binary pairs)
4.4.6
May 4, 2022
V4.4.6
- Flight mode is here! Fly in the atmosphere of all terrestrial exoplanets!
- planets are now generated using the Terrain feature (if you have a device that cannot properly render them, use the setting in the flight mode menu)
- another round of bug fixes (including long opening times)
- new search for planets (by number)
- new search for stars - pair types (weird binary pairs)
4.4.3
March 29, 2022
V4.4.3
All improvements and bug fixes from Galaxy Map and Stars and Planets included: new autocomplete search feature, updated UI, newly added exoplanets in the database will appear in a panel, sizes of planets and moons adjusted to better reflect the differences between them, parent star spectral planet search
4.4.1
January 7, 2022
V4.4.1
- Moons added in the solar system
- Visiting a system from the sector will have a warp animation
- planets are now 3d in the system view
- more UI improvements
- lots of bug fixes, including magnetar crash on some devices
4.3.1
October 6, 2021
V4.3.0
- new UI, a tutorial and some random tips while exploring
- Improved stars and all planets' textures
- improved planets in our solar system
- a few new jovian textures, jovians have moving clouds
- lots of bug fixes and improvements (earth and saturn aurora, haumea rings)
- can now change sectors manually