Viewing the night sky or space is not always a simple task, especially if you do not have a good telescope or a quality zoom camera, discovering the locations of constellations and other cosmic points is not easy. Happily, A new iPhone app promises to help Apple users find the center of the Milky Way, the cosmic region that’s home to a massive black hole.
The free Galactic Compass app launched on the Apple app store can help users find the center of our galaxy. It doesn’t matter which part of the world you are in, just use your mobile phone and know which way to look.
The app was developed by Matthew Webb and used ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence to program the app. The launch took place on the Apple App Store on February 15.
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Wherever you are on the planet, Galactic Compass will point a small arrow towards the galactic center and consequently for the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). According to Webb, his interest in developing the application began with his discovery that the center of the galaxy was constantly changing regions due to the movements of the Earth and the Solar System.
“In 2020, Robin Sloan said an app could be a home-cooked meal. Now, I’ve created a meal that anyone with an iPhone can download. Only a few dozen people will probably want it, but I want it in my pocket and I want to share it with my friends, and here we are. And I don’t even know how to cook,” Webb joked on his personal blog.
iPhone and Galactic Center
The application is also very simple to use, in fact the interface is as simple as it gets; When you open the app and place your iPhone on a flat surface, a 3D green arrow will appear pointing to the core of the Milky Way; just like a compass.. The region is also known for hosting Sgr A*, a supermassive black hole with a mass millions of times that of our Sun.
After learning about the motion spanning the center of the galaxy, Webb began developing the application without knowing how to program it. He started using ChatGPT to write lines of code and perform integrations with complex mathematical calculations; Only after that did he run the programming in the Xcode software and implement the application.
“The Galactic Compass is still pretty cumbersome, of course. “But for collaboration between someone who can’t develop an app and an AI that’s only a year old, that’s not bad at all,” Webb added.
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