13.1.0
2022-09-19
- New section: "Did you know?" offering tips and tricks to use the app and some exoplanet trivia.
- New Lock Screen widgets, allowing you to show the current number of confirmed exoplanets on your Lock Screen.
13.0.1
2022-08-15
Favourite planets are not longer lost when switching between the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and the Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia (exoplanet.eu).
13.0.0
2022-08-11
- You can choose the data source to be either the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, the Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia (exoplanet.eu) and the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
- Widgets have been redesigned and updated to allow you to choose the data source.
12.9.0
2021-06-21
- Added the constellation of all exoplanets.
- Added many nearby objects to the Solar System even if they do not have any planets.
12.8.2
2021-06-14
- Fixes an issue where labels in the Virtual Reality View displayed incorrect values and became unresponsive.
- Fixes an issue which might have caused the app to crash during startup if certain planets were labelled as favourites.
12.8.1
2021-05-26
- Both the navigation bar and tool bar in the Milky Way view can now be hidden. This is useful for presentations.
- Fixes an issue which sorted planets incorrectly.
- Fixes an issue which may cause the app to crash on startup.
- Fixes an issue that occurred when changing some units in the planet detail view.
12.8.0
2021-05-24
This updated fixes several orientation issues in the Virtual Reality view (zoom in to the Earth in the Milky Way to check it out).
12.7.7
2021-05-19
- You can now search for thousands of asteroids in the database.
- You can now zoom into thousands of asteroids in the Solar System.
- Improved interface to Unistellar app.
12.7.6
2021-05-11
The Exoplanet App can now send exoplanet coordinates directly to your eVscope! The link can be found at the very bottom of every planet detail page.
12.7.5
2021-04-28
It is now possible to show stellar radius and temperature in correlation plots.
12.7.4
2021-03-26
Fixed a bug in the galactic neighbourhood visualization (to enable this feature, go to About/Add-ons, then Options).
12.7.3
2021-03-16
This update includes a new home screen widget which shows the current number of discovered exoplanets grouped by discovery method.
12.7.2
2021-03-14
- New experimental stellar neighbourhood visualization (to try it out, turn it on on under About/Add-ons)
- Fixes a bug which causes the app to crash when displaying correlation diagrams.
- Fixes a bug on certain iPad air models which caused the app to crash during in the Milky Way view.
12.7.0
2021-01-21
- Change the color of your HomeKit lights according to the spectral type and temperature of exoplanet host stars. To enable this feature go to "About / Add-ons" and tap on "Link HomeKit Accessories".
- Performance improvements.
12.6.3
2021-01-09
- Size comparison now includes stars and all planets in the planetary system.
12.6.2
2021-01-08
- Fixed GPU based Kepler solver in the orbit and habitable zone visualization.
12.6.1
2020-10-27
- You can now search for Sgr A*, the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way.
- Improved accessibility features .
- Fixes an issue where the wrong planet parameters were shown in the database.
12.6.0
2020-10-24
Improved accessibility features
12.5.3
2020-10-17
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery that Sagittarius A*, a radio source near the Galactic Center of our Milky Way, is a supermassive compact object. You can now view the orbits of 39 S-Stars near Sagittarius A* within the Exoplanet app (requires add-on).
This version also corrects the orientation of the Milky Way texture when viewed from Earth (thanks to Tetsuya Tokushige who reported this), fixes an issue with the news section, and other minor bugs.
12.5.2
2020-10-09
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery that Sagittarius A*, a radio source near the Galactic Center of our Milky Way, is a supermassive compact object. You can now view the orbits of 39 S-Stars near Sagittarius A* within the Exoplanet app (requires add-on).
This version also corrects the orientation of the Milky Way texture when viewed from Earth (thanks to Tetsuya Tokushige who reported this) and fixes an issue with the news section.
12.5.1
2020-10-09
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery that Sagittarius A*, a radio source near the Galactic Center of our Milky Way, is a supermassive compact object. You can now view the orbits of 39 S-Stars near Sagittarius A* within the Exoplanet app (requires add-on).
This version also corrects the orientation of the Milky Way texture when viewed from Earth.
12.5.0
2020-10-08
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery that Sagittarius A*, a radio source near the Galactic Center of our Milky Way, is a supermassive compact object. You can now view the orbits of 39 S-Stars near Sagittarius A* within the Exoplanet app (requires add-on).
12.4.1
2020-09-26
- The number of discovered exoplanets shown on the home screen widget updates faster (requires iOS14)
- Fixes a bug which disabled buttons and sliders in the settings
- Fixes a relative phase error between asteroids and Jupiter
12.4
2020-09-24
You can now add a widget to your home screen which shows the current number of confirmed exoplanets (requires iOS14).
12.3.3
2020-08-24
- Fixes an issue where the app would crash during startup in rare circumstances.
- Minor performance updates.