CoRoT-2 System

About This Visualization

• Demonstrates transit photometry for exoplanet detection via periodic stellar flux attenuation during planetary transits.

• "Simulated Light Curve" graph plots relative stellar brightness during transits.

• Transit depth and duration analysis yields planet-star radius ratios and constrains orbital parameters.

• Temporal Scaling: CoRoT-2b's orbital period (1.74 d) is scaled for visualization.

• Rendered using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with the Three.js library. Features procedural GLSL shaders (including FBM noise) for the star, sky, and nebulas, and utilizes Keplerian algorithms for calculating orbital positions.

• Creator: nthncyz | Source: GitHub.

Gaia BH1 (Dormant)

This simulation represents Gaia BH1, the closest known black hole to Earth.

Type: Stellar-mass black hole

Constellation: Ophiuchus

Distance: ~1,560 light-years

Mass: ~9.6 Solar Masses

Note: The visual representation (accretion disk size, particle density) is purely artistic and not to scale.

Its discovery provided strong evidence for dormant stellar-mass black holes.

Simulated Light Curve

Planets in System

About This Visualization

Gaia BH1 (Dormant)