Comet Courier
The route

From Earth to the heart of the galaxy

Every sector in Comet Courier is based on a real place. You leave Earth, pass the planets out to Neptune, cross the galaxy through a wormhole, and fly past some of the Milky Way's most famous sights on the way to the supermassive black hole at its centre.

Each page below explains the real place, with the key facts astronomers know about it, and what you will see when you fly through it in the game.

  1. Sector 1EarthPlanet · Where every run starts
  2. Sector 2MarsPlanet · About 228 million km from the Sun
  3. Sector 3JupiterPlanet · About 778 million km from the Sun
  4. Sector 4SaturnPlanet · About 1.4 billion km from the Sun
  5. Sector 5UranusPlanet · About 2.9 billion km from the Sun
  6. Sector 6NeptunePlanet · About 4.5 billion km from the Sun
  7. CrossingWormholeHypothetical shortcut · Between Neptune and the Pleiades
  8. Sector 7PleiadesStar cluster · About 440 light-years from Earth
  9. Sector 8Orion NebulaNebula · About 1,350 light-years from Earth
  10. Sector 9BetelgeuseRed supergiant star · About 550 to 650 light-years from Earth
  11. Sector 10Pillars of CreationStar-forming columns · About 6,500 to 7,000 light-years from Earth
  12. Sector 11Crab NebulaSupernova remnant · About 6,500 light-years from Earth
  13. Sector 12Eta CarinaeMassive star system · About 7,500 light-years from Earth
  14. Sector 13Sagittarius A*Supermassive black hole · About 26,000 light-years from Earth