Notes de version

2026.10.20 · 20 October 2026

New: The right-side controls open as an icon rail, with an option to show labels. They include planetary-time controls, camera rotation-follow, full screen where supported, sky-culture selection and contextual actions.

New: The action ring follows the current level and distinguishes the default Sun selection from a deliberate click on the Sun.

Improved: The first rendered frame now measures and applies the current non-zero canvas size before drawing, including on narrow viewports.

Model and data (model): Solar close-up rendering parameters were retuned for finer, slower photospheric granules, a thinner chromospheric rim and revised sunspot contrast and evolution. These are presentation parameters, not new solar observations.

Model and data (rendering): Atmosphere-scattering and cloud profiles are delivered as generated, versioned tables from explicit source inputs. Earth's procedural cloud layer uses assumed rendering parameters adapted from an earlier Noologia experience; it is not a measured weather analysis.

Model and data (model): Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune cloud detail is advected by latitude-dependent zonal-wind profiles. The giant-planet wind profiles are simplified zonal stops, not time-resolved cloud observations; the animation represents differential flow relative to each planet's rotation.

Known limits: The updated startup sizing and new view controls have not yet been verified on a physical phone; full-screen control depends on browser support.

Known limits: Giant-planet wind profiles are simplified and do not simulate weather evolution or resolve every observed jet and storm.

2026.10.17 · 17 October 2026

New: Constellation figures of 45 sky cultures, with their names in the reading language; the modern IAU constellations keep their Latin names. Their lines are drawn with the stars and fade out away from the solar neighbourhood.

New: A star can be picked and approached from the solar system, an orbit or the ground, not only from the galaxy.

Improved: The Milky Way picture of the reviewed sister renderer is shown at every quality tier, including the lightest.

Improved: An interstellar departure heads for its destination at once and goes around the star it leaves, without first moving backwards.

Fixed: Constellation lines stay on their stars at every distance, including while approaching one of them.

Fixed: A refused relief catalogue is no longer requested again on every frame.

Fixed: Distinct-star coverage no longer refuses new visitors at a global ledger size; exact per-session and per-address histories remain until expiry. Terrain coverage retains counts when detailed histories are evicted.

Model and data (measured): Stars, the catalogue, search and named reliefs are served from one sealed NSV bank (NSVB v1), which replaces the former capture, cache and catalogue edition. The lunar and Martian relief banks are unchanged.

Model and data (model): Constellation stick figures and sky-culture names come from the NSV catalogue: only the segments the bank admits in three dimensions are drawn, between the catalogue positions of their stars.

Model and data (rendering): The galaxy picture uses the sister renderer's volume and star field; the real stars it draws are those of the resident neighbourhood and of the constellation figures.

Model and data (rendering): Atmosphere and cloud profiles are distributed as precomputed tables from the same scientific functions and parameters; this changes their packaging, not their numerical values.

Known limits: Seventeen constellation stars known only from Hipparcos have no Gaia G magnitude: their lines end where no star is drawn.

Known limits: Physical phones and Safari remain unqualified.

Known limits: Publicly displayed data and browser code remain copyable; extraction guards limit bulk retrieval, not all copying.

2026.09.19.2 · 19 September 2026

Improved: Public access remains open with minified application modules and protected internal files.

Fixed: Cached planetary meshes remain available for wheel reversal without reducing the budget for visible terrain. The previous release was withdrawn after this problem appeared at the high quality tier.

Known limits: Interstellar departure motion and eviction after cancellation of a partial sky remain separate known issues under review.

Known limits: Public browser code remains recoverable; minification cannot prevent all copying.

Known limits: Physical phones and Safari remain unqualified.

2026.09.19 · 19 September 2026

New: A welcome card, guided tour and navigation compass help exploration.

New: Optional procedural sound and stellar controls are available.

Improved: Recently displayed planetary relief is reused when reversing the mouse wheel, within the existing memory budgets.

Improved: The public delivery reduces exposed implementation detail and blocks source maps, unversioned asset paths and internal files.

Fixed: Intermediate terrain refinements preserve their parent sampling density, preventing the broad blurred lunar panels seen during wheel reversal.

Fixed: Measured pages from different planetary banks now have distinct memory reservation identities.

Model and data (measured): Existing HIP B-V measurements now reach sky photometry. The installed catalogue, lunar and Martian relief banks are unchanged.

Model and data (model): Stellar close-ups include revised granulation and colour calibration, dwarf-sequence photometric temperatures and measured rapid-rotator parameters where available.

Model and data (rendering): Layered stellar appearance, staged sky publication and travel presentation have evolved. Magnetic overlays and some emission depictions remain stylised.

Accessibility: Startup capability guidance and the welcome interface support English, Esperanto, French and Spanish. Release notes remain in English.

Known limits: Withdrawn after public verification found that retained terrain meshes reduced visible detail at the high quality tier.

Known limits: The lunar wheel correction was checked in a desktop WebGPU browser; physical phones and Safari remain unqualified.

Known limits: Interstellar departure motion and eviction after cancellation of a partial sky remain separate known issues under review.

Known limits: Public browser code and visible content can still be recovered; minification does not make copying impossible.

2026.09.16 · 16 September 2026

New: Stars seen up close are built from layers: photosphere, chromosphere, corona, halo, sunspots, magnetic loops, ejections and loop arcades.

Improved: The largest engine files start downloading earlier, and the site is served over HTTP/2.

Fixed: A star could disappear when its close-up finished preparing late.

Fixed: Some close-up layers could be enabled without their memory being reserved.

Model and data (model): Each star’s close-up starts from the defaults of its spectral class. These defaults are provisional and will be reviewed against published tables.

Model and data (measured): When the catalogue provides a measured value for a star, it replaces the class default. The installed catalogue does not yet provide spectral type, radius, luminosity or mass.

Known limits: Not yet qualified on physical phones or in Safari.

2026.09.14.2 · 14 September 2026

Fixed: On touch screens, a tap on the ring menu could reach the view behind it, and a long press could be missed after a small movement.

Known limits: Checked in a 390 × 844 browser viewport, not on a physical phone.

2026.09.14 · 14 September 2026

New: The information bar is back: brand, scale levels, graphics facts and the live position panel.

Model and data (measured): Measured relief of Mars and the Moon, with their geological maps, is served from new data banks.

Known limits: Not yet qualified on physical phones.

2026.09.12 · 12 September 2026

New: Legal notice, privacy, cookies and scientific sources open in a window without leaving the exploration.

New: A window explains how to support Noologia; exploring remains free.

New: Spanish joins English, French and Esperanto.

Known limits: Physical phone display not yet verified.