Get WebbVR: The James Webb Space Telescope Virtual Experience for PC

WebbVR: The James Webb Space Telescope Virtual Experience is a virtual reality experience built around NASA data, simulating the James Webb Space Telescope and its infrared view of the cosmos. You explore space, inspect the telescope and interact with learning experiences about astronomy and space missions.

The Webb telescope

Visit the James Webb Space Telescope at its orbit point beyond the Moon, 1 million miles from Earth, with an accurate backdrop of the Solar System. Fly close to its golden mirrors and view the universe from the telescope’s perspective. You can also compare Webb with the Hubble and WFIRST space telescopes, with information hubs in the VR environment covering each mission.

Explore space

Travel through the Solar System, including Saturn’s rings and the moons orbiting Jupiter. Beyond it, visit the Orion Nebula, where a disk of gas and dust is beginning to form planets, or fly through the star fields of a simulated galaxy.

Experiments and simulations

Build a planet or a whole solar system, send stars into a black hole and observe what happens, or change a star’s mass to see how its lifecycle changes. The experience presents data-based collision physics, Newtonian gravity, gas viscosity and the electromagnetic spectrum through interactive science concepts.