YOUNG EXPLORERSStill pictures
Kids edition · A cosmic story
Navigating the
Stellar Ocean
A friendly guide to finding your way across the Solar System.
Imagine a neighborhood of planets, ships, and future explorers. This illustrated story introduces a shared map and time reference—without asking every world to live by the same day.
Pictures, ideas, and a little bit of wonder. No big formulas needed.
Many worlds.
Each with a rhythm of its own.
Four illustrated worlds. Sizes, distances, and speeds are not to scale.
01Picture it
The Solar System is a stellar ocean
We can imagine the Solar System as a giant ocean. In this story-picture, empty space becomes our sea and planets become places to visit. Their paths around the Sun are like routes through the neighborhood.
06Why it matters
Together does not mean the same
Earth can stay Earth. Mars can stay Mars. A future station can keep its own working schedule. The important thing is that different places can understand one another faithfully and kindly.
“Many homes.
One conversation.”
Little wordbook
Some story-pictures. Some proposed names. All open to curiosity.
- System State
- A way of thinking about the whole Solar System as one neighborhood to explore and work within.
- USST
- A proposed shared time helper. It would help different places talk about the same event.
- Planetarydian
- An invented name for a planet’s own map-and-time reference: a way to describe “here” and local solar time.
- Solardian
- An invented name for map notation that describes a position relative to the Sun.