A beautifully illustrated story
Best-selling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the incredible diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft that surround the Sun in our cosmic backyard.
More than 150 beautifully presented story pages are lavishly illustrated with interactive scenes, 3D objects and videos.
Understand the orbits
Set the heavens in motion with a fully interactive 3D orrery that lets you control the orbits of the planets and their moons.
Experience space missions
View the latest imagery returned by both astronauts and robot spacecraft, beautifully presented on the iPad screen.
Incredible curated galleries
A stunning array of astronomical photography from the outer reaches of our solar system.
Includes over 600 painstakingly selected images representing the very best returned by NASA, ESA and JAXA space missions. Detailed captions include the most fascinating technical data.
Live data from Wolfram|Alpha
Comprehensive astronomical information updated live from Wolfram|Alpha®.
Reveal the unseen
Eye-opening interactive simulations that put the Oort Cloud, tectonic plates and even the Sun’s magnetic field at the tips of your fingers.
USA Today, Marc SaltzmanThe new Solar System for iPad app is an amazing and extraordinarily attractive resource for amateur astronomers… an out-of-this-world digital book that is as informative as it is beautiful. It's a stellar example for other reference app makers on how to best take advantage of the tablet medium.