A pixel-art solar system at its real current positions.
An animated pixel-art map of the solar system with every body at its real current position, computed from published orbital elements rather than copied from a list. Zoom from the Sun to the Kuiper belt, browse 171 catalogued objects with sourced facts, and see what the sky is doing for the next six months. Every rock is also for sale: claim an asteroid for $5, keep it forever, name it whatever you like. A name here is shown on AstraPixels only, and is not an IAU designation.
AstraPixels is a pixel-art map of the solar system where everything is where it actually is. Positions are computed from published orbital elements with astronomy-engine, not copied from a list, so the map you open is the sky you are standing under. You can wind time forward a week, flip to true scale to see how much the map is lying to you, and open any of 171 bodies for its sourced facts and its position right now.
The other half is that every body is also for sale. An asteroid is $5, once, kept forever. A moon is $49. The Sun is leased.
I built the commercial side around the three ways a Million Dollar Homepage clone normally dies:
- Inventory sells out, or never does. The main belt is 3,000 procedurally generated rocks, so there is a $5 floor that cannot sell out, while the things that are genuinely scarce (the Sun, the eight planet skins, the comets) are leased rather than sold. - Nobody ever comes back. So it is an astronomy tool first. Real positions, and a sky-events page that computes the next six months of conjunctions, oppositions, meteor showers and eclipses. - Link rot. 22% of the original's links died within a decade. Links here are checked monthly, and three failures turn the rock into a visibly decaying derelict sprite before it recycles back into inventory.
One thing I want to be blunt about, because the resemblance is unavoidable: a name you put on a body is shown on AstraPixels and nowhere else. It is not an IAU designation, it is not submitted to anybody, and no observatory will recognise it. Official minor planet names are assigned by the IAU and cannot be bought. That disclosure is on every page that shows a custom name, not buried in the terms.
There is no sign-up. Stripe asks for your email and that is the whole account system.
I would rather have your criticism than your upvote. The thing I am least sure about is whether the map reads as a toy or as an instrument, so tell me which one it looked like in the first five seconds.
About AstraPixels on Product Hunt
“A pixel-art solar system at its real current positions.”
AstraPixels launched on Product Hunt on August 8th, 2026 and earned 280 upvotes and 13 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. An animated pixel-art map of the solar system with every body at its real current position, computed from published orbital elements rather than copied from a list. Zoom from the Sun to the Kuiper belt, browse 171 catalogued objects with sourced facts, and see what the sky is doing for the next six months. Every rock is also for sale: claim an asteroid for $5, keep it forever, name it whatever you like. A name here is shown on AstraPixels only, and is not an IAU designation.
On the analytics side, AstraPixels competes within Web App, Art and Advertising — topics that collectively have 173.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how AstraPixels performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted AstraPixels?
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Nick Launches
Hi Product Hunt.
AstraPixels is a pixel-art map of the solar system where everything is where it actually is. Positions are computed from published orbital elements with astronomy-engine, not copied from a list, so the map you open is the sky you are standing under. You can wind time forward a week, flip to true scale to see how much the map is lying to you, and open any of 171 bodies for its sourced facts and its position right now.
The other half is that every body is also for sale. An asteroid is $5, once, kept forever. A moon is $49. The Sun is leased.
I built the commercial side around the three ways a Million Dollar Homepage clone
normally dies:
- Inventory sells out, or never does. The main belt is 3,000 procedurally generated rocks, so there is a $5 floor that cannot sell out, while the things that are genuinely scarce (the Sun, the eight planet skins, the comets) are leased rather than sold.
- Nobody ever comes back. So it is an astronomy tool first. Real positions, and a sky-events page that computes the next six months of conjunctions, oppositions, meteor showers and eclipses.
- Link rot. 22% of the original's links died within a decade. Links here are checked monthly, and three failures turn the rock into a visibly decaying derelict sprite before it recycles back into inventory.
One thing I want to be blunt about, because the resemblance is unavoidable: a name you put on a body is shown on AstraPixels and nowhere else. It is not an IAU designation, it is not submitted to anybody, and no observatory will recognise it. Official minor planet names are assigned by the IAU and cannot be bought. That disclosure is on every page that shows a custom name, not buried in the terms.
There is no sign-up. Stripe asks for your email and that is the whole account system.
I would rather have your criticism than your upvote. The thing I am least sure about is whether the map reads as a toy or as an instrument, so tell me which one it looked like in the first five seconds.