A full (PERN) stack planetary system visualizer web app created by the "AstroNerds", a team of 4 people in their CS minor capstone class. The data was obtained from the NASA Exoplanet Archive and stored in a PostgreSQL database served through an Express server with more than 3000 items. Front end built using JavaScript, React.js, and Node.js. The project is hosted in an AWS EC2 instance on a Ubuntu server. Users are able to search up, visualize, and learn about distant stars and orbiting planets.
Go to planetariumarcadium.com. Click "Start exploring" and you will be guided to a search bar. Now you can enter the name of a star or a planet. Click on a search result to view that planetary system. You can adjust the zoom and the speed/direction in time the planets move.