Flythrough: the galaxy in 3D

The flythrough is a 3D flight through a No Man's Sky galaxy, right in your browser: one continuous view from a quarter of the galaxy down to a single cube and its regions, without loading a new page at each step. Open it from the flythrough, or from the Full Screen button of any galaxy, core, sector, block, cube or region page.

What you see

The galaxy is cut into nested zones, the same ones as the rest of the site (see Navigation): quadrant, sector, block, cube, then the regions themselves. The toolbar shows the level you are looking at.

Boxes: the boundaries of the zones at the current level.
Heatmap: where the charted star systems gather.
Regions: one dot per known region.
Core: the galactic core, the empty heart every traveller aims for.

Each layer can be switched on and off from the toolbar, and the legend in the corner names every marker.

Moving around

With a mouse: drag to pan, scroll to zoom. Click a zone and the camera flies to it, with its name and an Open button; double-click to go straight to its page.
On a phone or tablet: drag to pan, pinch to zoom, twist two fingers to turn, tap to select, double-tap to zoom in.
Full Screen hides the browser around the scene. On a phone or tablet turned sideways, the flythrough goes full screen by itself, and leaves it when you turn back.

Landing somewhere

Flying never takes you away from the scene unless you ask. When you leave full screen, a card tells you where you stopped, with an Open button to the real page of that place: its map, its known systems, its portal.

Where you start

From the menu, the flythrough opens on Euclid. From the Full Screen button of a page, it starts where that page is: the same galaxy, quadrant, sector, block, cube or region. Every one of the 256 galaxies can be flown this way.

What it needs

A browser with JavaScript and WebGL, which covers recent desktops, phones and tablets. Without them, the classic pages give the same places as lists and 2D maps: start from the galaxies.

Last updated: 26 October 2026