Drag to orbit. Right-drag, or Shift-drag, pans. The wheel zooms. Click a star to focus it: its connections light up and the rest dim. Double-click flies to it. The arrow keys orbit too, and W and S zoom.
The sky opens with a flight to Christ at the centre. Skip or Esc ends it before Him; a touch or a movement key ends it where you are.
Two ways to move, switched by Orbit and Fly on the sky. Orbit turns around the star in view. Fly travels freely: press Forward, Back, Left and Right (Left and Right turn, as a car steers), or use W A S D or the arrows; Up and Down, or E and Q, rise and sink; drag to look; the wheel moves forward and back. The slider sets the speed. Speed follows distance (slow near stars, fast across space) unless Settings turns that off.
Click or tap a star to choose it, then Fly to it. When you arrive, Read opens the verse.
Click a star to select it. Double-click centers it and tracks it. G goes there, and G again arrives at once. C centers. T tracks. Home moves closer, End moves farther. [ and ] step through chapters.
Space pauses the orbits. K and L change that clock. I hides the verse. The reading text is KJV.
Look changes the drawing only. The verses stay where they are.
The list beside the verse is paths from this star, or into it. The faint light between the clouds is those paths together. Brighter stars are the verses cross-referenced most.
About this sky
Every star is one verse. In the Milky Way layout the whole Bible is one galaxy: the Gospels are its bright core, with the chapters of the crucifixion at the very center, and every other book lies on one of two arms. Books are ranked by how strongly their cross-references tie them to the Gospels and dealt to the arms in turn, so along each arm the stronger ties lie nearer the core. In the other layouts a chapter is a star cluster, a book is a galaxy, and the two Testaments are two galaxy clusters with a void between them. The faint web is the Open Bible cross-references, largely the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, weighted by reader votes. Votes rank helpfulness. They are not a second canon.
Every cross-reference with a positive vote is drawn: a faint arc between the two verses it joins, colored from one verse's section to the other's, and one grain of light between them. More votes, brighter. The arcs, their colors and their glow follow trekhleb.dev/bible-cross-references (MIT). The faintest pinpoints far behind everything are backdrop, not Scripture.
Near a star you see its own system. The star is the verse. Its strongest cross-references orbit it as scrolls, the strongest innermost, and every other one sits in its Oort cloud, each placed toward where that verse lies in the galaxy, with a thread pointing the way. Hover or tap a scroll to see where it leads; click or tap again to open it and read it. Scrolls follow the panel's direction and votes.
Physics, plainly. Scrolls around a star move on Kepler ellipses, and a wider orbit takes longer in proportion to its size to the power three halves. A star dims with the square of the distance. Distances are a map of Scripture, not parsecs. Galaxies do not rotate here, because the stars never move. Light travel time is not modeled, and quantum mechanics is not simulated.
Three verses frame the picture. They are the reason for it, not a physical law.
Colossians 1:17
1 John 1:5
1 John 4:8
Music: Chopin nocturnes and preludes recorded for Musopen, CC0 (public domain); the ambient pads are generated in your browser. Texts: King James Version, 1769, public domain; World English Bible, American Standard Version, and Young’s Literal Translation, public domain. Cross-references: Open Bible, CC BY. The figure at the baptism, the cross, and the resurrection is not a likeness. Summaries beside a verse are marked as summaries, not Scripture.
Lab pages, earlier experiments: volume sampler and two scales.