View current positions of planets in the solar system with orbital paths and distances.
Open the page and the eight planets sit at their places for the day's date: each one on its elliptical path around the Sun, with its current distance from the Sun beside it. The positions track each planet's orbit, so the view is always current but never a fixture: reload tomorrow and every planet has advanced along its path. The map is heliocentric, seen from above the ecliptic with the Sun at the center, and that is what people most often misread: it shows where the planets are in their orbits, not where to point a telescope tonight.
The Sun is the fixed center and each planet rides its own ellipse. The map must span about 30 AU to include Neptune, so the inner four planets (Mercury to Mars) crowd within the first 1.5 AU or so. The distance beside each planet is its current Sun-to-planet distance, which swings between perihelion and aphelion: Mercury 46-70 million km, Earth 147-152 million km.
Each planet's spot on its orbit is computed for the date you open the page. Each moves at the rate its orbital period dictates, and periods differ enormously: Mercury laps the Sun every 88 days, Mars every 687 days, Jupiter every 12 years, Neptune every 165 years. The result is deterministic: the same date always shows the same map, but two dates a week apart show different inner-planet positions.
The map is anchored to the date it is opened: each planet is placed where it is in its orbit on that date, and planets never stop moving. Mercury moves a visible amount in a day; Neptune needs 165 years for one lap, so it looks frozen. Reopening the same date gives the identical view.
Not directly. The map looks down on the Sun, so it shows orbital positions, not where to point a telescope; sky placement depends on Earth's position and the time of night. Use it to read a planet's configuration relative to the Sun, then switch to a sky chart for altitude and visibility.
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