Aisle 5No. 75 of 460
Splashery
Star Cluster
138,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Space · Built from a recipe
Star Cluster
A globular cluster is a ball of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by their own gravity, packed tightest at the middle.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to make the cluster breathe in and out.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 75 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 5, Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 138,000
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breathe in and out | Tap | ||
| Breathe | Button |
About it
A globular cluster is a ball of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by their own gravity, packed tightest at the middle. Its stars are very old, among the oldest in our galaxy, and the Milky Way has about 150 of these clusters circling it.
Tap it and the cluster breathes: it draws in, swells out and settles, the core first and the outer stars a moment later, while a wave of sparkle runs out from the middle. Near the middle of a real cluster, the stars are packed far more tightly than the stars around the Sun.
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
