Merge main again: readouts built once, said in the instrument's voice

Main moved while the previous merge was being verified. It brought the
shared bodyReadouts builder — one source for a body's measured and derived
rows, used by the detail page and the system view's new object card — plus
the derived-value asterisk in the HUD readout panel.

All of that data flow is kept. The templates it arrived in are restyled to
this branch's idiom: the info panel and the object card share the same
organism (header, full-bleed readout rows, provenance line, route rail),
the object card's route rail sits at the bottom because there the route is
the next step rather than the way back, and the derived asterisk and its
footnote keep their meaning in sentence case. The card also needed the
restyle to render at all — it arrived wearing hud-panel, a class the
observatory system no longer defines.

Verified: build clean, 527/527 unit, 6/6 e2e, design detector clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jxMkwA2rbicdGxHosecYi

src/app/features/body-detail/body-detail-scene.component.ts

@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ import { OrbitControls } from 'three/addons/controls/OrbitControls.js';
 
 import { DataLoaderService } from '../../core/data/data-loader.service';
 import { EngineService } from '../../core/engine/engine.service';
-import { appearanceForBody, appearanceForExoplanet } from '../../shared/astro/body-appearance';
-import { EARTH_RADIUS_KM } from '../../shared/astro/planet-appearance';
-import { luminositySolar } from '../../shared/astro/stellar';
 import { planetTexture } from '../../shared/rendering/procedural-planet-texture';
 import { applyMilkyWaySkybox, createGlowSprite } from '../../shared/rendering/skybox';
 import { atmosphereColorFor, bodyTexturePath, loadCachedTexture, MILKY_WAY_SKYBOX_PATH, SATURN_RING_TEXTURE_PATH } from '../../shared/rendering/texture-catalog';
@@ -17,6 +14,7 @@ import { ExoplanetRecord } from '../../shared/models/exoplanet.model';
 import { StarRecord } from '../../shared/models/star.model';
 import { NavigationStore } from '../../shared/state/navigation.store';
 import { BodyDetailViewModel } from './body-detail.model';
+import { buildBodyViewModel } from './body-view-model';
 import { InfoPanelComponent } from './info-panel.component';
 
 /** Gas giants read as smoother/less rocky than terrestrial bodies under the same lighting rig. */
@@ -127,44 +125,18 @@ export class BodyDetailSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
       return;
     }
 
-    const body = this.bodies.find((candidate) => candidate.id === id);
-    const exoplanet = this.exoplanets.find((candidate) => candidate.id === id);
-
-    if (body) {
-      const hostStar = this.stars.find((star) => star.id === body.systemStarId);
-      this.viewModel.set({
-        id: body.id,
-        name: body.name,
-        kind: body.kind,
-        hostStarName: hostStar?.name ?? 'Unknown star',
-        radiusKm: body.radiusKm,
-        orbit: body.orbit,
-        appearance: appearanceForBody(body, this.bodies, this.luminosityOf(hostStar)),
-        hasPhotography: bodyTexturePath(body.id) !== undefined
-      });
-      this.navigationStore.selectStar(body.systemStarId);
-    } else if (exoplanet) {
-      const hostStar = this.stars.find((star) => star.id === exoplanet.hostStarId);
-      this.viewModel.set({
-        id: exoplanet.id,
-        name: exoplanet.name,
-        kind: 'exoplanet',
-        hostStarName: exoplanet.hostStarName,
-        radiusKm: exoplanet.radiusEarth ? exoplanet.radiusEarth * EARTH_RADIUS_KM : undefined,
-        massEarth: exoplanet.massEarth,
-        discoveryYear: exoplanet.discoveryYear,
-        orbit: exoplanet.orbit,
-        appearance: appearanceForExoplanet(exoplanet, this.luminosityOf(hostStar)),
-        hasPhotography: bodyTexturePath(exoplanet.id) !== undefined
-      });
-      if (exoplanet.hostStarId !== null) {
-        this.navigationStore.selectStar(exoplanet.hostStarId);
-      }
-    } else {
+    // Shared with the system view's object card, so the same body cannot read differently there.
+    const viewModel = buildBodyViewModel(id, { bodies: this.bodies, exoplanets: this.exoplanets, stars: this.stars });
+    if (!viewModel) {
       this.viewModel.set(undefined);
       this.notFound.set(true);
       return;
     }
+    this.viewModel.set(viewModel);
+
+    if (viewModel.hostStarId !== undefined) {
+      this.navigationStore.selectStar(viewModel.hostStarId);
+    }
 
     this.notFound.set(false);
     this.navigationStore.selectBody(id);
@@ -173,18 +145,6 @@ export class BodyDetailSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * The host star's luminosity in solar units, from its own catalogued magnitude and distance.
-   * `null` for an exoplanet whose host never cross-referenced to the star catalogue, which
-   * leaves its planets with no derived temperature rather than a guessed one.
-   */
-  private luminosityOf(star: StarRecord | undefined): number | null {
-    if (!star) {
-      return null;
-    }
-    return luminositySolar({ magnitude: star.magnitude, distancePc: Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z), spectralType: star.spectralType });
-  }
-
   private applyViewModelToScene(): void {
     const viewModel = this.viewModel();
     if (!viewModel || !this.planetMaterial) {

src/app/features/body-detail/body-detail.model.ts

@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ export interface BodyDetailViewModel {
   name: string;
   kind: BodyDetailKind;
   hostStarName: string;
+  /**
+   * The host star's catalogue id, so a caller that has the view model does not have to rescan the
+   * catalogues to find what building it already resolved. Undefined for an exoplanet whose host
+   * never cross-referenced to the star catalogue.
+   */
+  hostStarId?: number;
   radiusKm?: number;
   massEarth?: number;
   discoveryYear?: number;
@@ -26,4 +32,16 @@ export interface BodyDetailViewModel {
   appearance: PlanetAppearance;
   /** True when a real photograph is being shown rather than the derived surface. */
   hasPhotography: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Sidereal orbital period. Measured where the archive published one; otherwise derived from the
+   * semi-major axis for heliocentric orbits, where the central mass is known exactly. Undefined
+   * when neither applies — see `heliocentricPeriodDays`.
+   */
+  orbitalPeriodDays?: number;
+  /**
+   * Which of those two the period is, so the surfaces can file it under the right heading. A
+   * derived period presented as an observation is the same category of error as presenting a
+   * derived surface as a photograph.
+   */
+  orbitalPeriodSource?: 'measured' | 'derived';
 }

src/app/features/body-detail/body-readouts.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+import { PLANET_CLASS_LABELS } from '../../shared/astro/planet-appearance';
+import { formatAu, formatDensity, formatMassEarth, formatPeriod, formatRadiusKm, formatTemperature } from '../../shared/format/quantity';
+import { Readout } from '../../shared/models/readout';
+import { BodyDetailViewModel } from './body-detail.model';
+
+export const KIND_LABELS: Readonly<Record<BodyDetailViewModel['kind'], string>> = {
+  planet: 'Planet',
+  moon: 'Moon',
+  dwarf: 'Dwarf planet',
+  exoplanet: 'Exoplanet'
+};
+
+export interface BodyReadouts {
+  readonly kindLabel: string;
+  /** Only what a catalogue actually published for this body. */
+  readonly measured: readonly Readout[];
+  /** Everything computed from those measurements rather than observed directly. */
+  readonly derived: readonly Readout[];
+  /** Says plainly which of the two the surface being drawn is. */
+  readonly provenance: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Turns a body into the rows its panels display.
+ *
+ * Shared by the in-map card and the detail page for the same reason `buildBodyViewModel` is:
+ * two independent assemblies of "what do we know about this world" drift, and here the drift
+ * would be in which side of the measured/derived line a quantity falls on — which is the one
+ * distinction these panels exist to make.
+ */
+export function bodyReadouts(body: BodyDetailViewModel): BodyReadouts {
+  const measured: Readout[] = [];
+  if (body.radiusKm !== undefined) {
+    measured.push({ label: 'Radius', value: formatRadiusKm(body.radiusKm) });
+  }
+  if (body.massEarth !== undefined) {
+    measured.push({ label: 'Mass', value: formatMassEarth(body.massEarth) });
+  }
+  if (body.orbit.semiMajorAxisAu !== undefined) {
+    measured.push({ label: 'Semi-major axis', value: formatAu(body.orbit.semiMajorAxisAu) });
+  }
+  if (body.orbit.eccentricity !== undefined) {
+    measured.push({ label: 'Eccentricity', value: body.orbit.eccentricity.toFixed(3) });
+  }
+  if (body.orbit.inclinationDeg !== undefined) {
+    measured.push({ label: 'Inclination', value: `${body.orbit.inclinationDeg.toFixed(2)}°` });
+  }
+  // The period sits under whichever heading its provenance calls for. Same number, same field —
+  // a published period is an observation and a computed one is not.
+  if (body.orbitalPeriodDays !== undefined && body.orbitalPeriodSource === 'measured') {
+    measured.push({ label: 'Period', value: formatPeriod(body.orbitalPeriodDays) });
+  }
+  if (body.discoveryYear !== undefined) {
+    measured.push({ label: 'Discovered', value: `${body.discoveryYear}` });
+  }
+
+  const derived: Readout[] = [{ label: 'Class', value: PLANET_CLASS_LABELS[body.appearance.planetClass] }];
+  if (body.orbitalPeriodDays !== undefined && body.orbitalPeriodSource === 'derived') {
+    derived.push({ label: 'Period', value: formatPeriod(body.orbitalPeriodDays) });
+  }
+  if (body.appearance.equilibriumTemperatureK !== null) {
+    derived.push({ label: 'Equilibrium temp.', value: formatTemperature(body.appearance.equilibriumTemperatureK) });
+  }
+  if (body.appearance.bulkDensityGramsPerCm3 !== null) {
+    derived.push({ label: 'Bulk density', value: formatDensity(body.appearance.bulkDensityGramsPerCm3) });
+  }
+
+  return { kindLabel: KIND_LABELS[body.kind], measured, derived, provenance: provenanceFor(body) };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The derived surface is a reasoned illustration, and a panel of real measurements sitting next
+ * to it is exactly the context in which it could be mistaken for another one.
+ */
+function provenanceFor(body: BodyDetailViewModel): string {
+  if (body.hasPhotography) {
+    return 'Surface: NASA/ESA/USGS photography.';
+  }
+  return body.appearance.equilibriumTemperatureK === null
+    ? 'Surface illustrated from this body’s measured size and mass. Its host star is not in the catalogue, so no temperature could be derived. Not an observation — no image of this world exists.'
+    : 'Surface illustrated from the measurements above — size, density and the temperature derived from its star’s output and its orbit. Not an observation — no image of this world exists.';
+}

src/app/features/body-detail/body-view-model.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import { BodyRecord, OrbitalElements } from '../../shared/models/body.model';
+import { ExoplanetRecord } from '../../shared/models/exoplanet.model';
+import { StarRecord, SUN_STAR_ID } from '../../shared/models/star.model';
+import { buildBodyViewModel, heliocentricPeriodDays } from './body-view-model';
+
+const orbit = (overrides: Partial<OrbitalElements> = {}): OrbitalElements => ({
+  semiMajorAxisAu: 1,
+  eccentricity: 0.0167,
+  inclinationDeg: 0,
+  longitudeOfAscendingNodeDeg: 0,
+  argumentOfPeriapsisDeg: 0,
+  meanAnomalyAtEpochDeg: 0,
+  epochJd: 2451545,
+  ...overrides,
+});
+
+const sun: StarRecord = {
+  id: SUN_STAR_ID,
+  name: 'Sol',
+  x: 0,
+  y: 0,
+  z: 0,
+  magnitude: -26.7,
+  spectralType: 'G2V',
+  colorIndex: 0.65,
+};
+
+const earth: BodyRecord = {
+  id: 'earth',
+  systemStarId: SUN_STAR_ID,
+  name: 'Earth',
+  kind: 'planet',
+  radiusKm: 6371,
+  orbit: orbit(),
+};
+const luna: BodyRecord = {
+  id: 'luna',
+  systemStarId: SUN_STAR_ID,
+  name: 'Moon',
+  kind: 'moon',
+  radiusKm: 1737,
+  parentBodyId: 'earth',
+  orbit: orbit({ semiMajorAxisAu: 0.00257 }),
+};
+
+describe('heliocentricPeriodDays', () => {
+  it('recovers a known period from the semi-major axis alone', () => {
+    // P² = a³ in these units, so Earth must come back a year.
+    expect(heliocentricPeriodDays(earth)).toBeCloseTo(365.25, 1);
+  });
+
+  it('scales as the three-halves power', () => {
+    const jupiter: BodyRecord = {
+      ...earth,
+      id: 'jupiter',
+      name: 'Jupiter',
+      orbit: orbit({ semiMajorAxisAu: 5.2044 }),
+    };
+    // Jupiter's real sidereal period is 4332.6 days.
+    expect(heliocentricPeriodDays(jupiter)).toBeCloseTo(4335, -1);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses to compute a period for a moon', () => {
+    // A moon's elements are relative to its planet, whose mass is not in the catalogue — the
+    // same arithmetic would be wrong by the ratio of that planet's mass to the Sun's.
+    expect(heliocentricPeriodDays(luna)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('buildBodyViewModel', () => {
+  const catalogues = { bodies: [earth, luna], exoplanets: [] as ExoplanetRecord[], stars: [sun] };
+
+  it('marks a period computed from the semi-major axis as derived', () => {
+    const model = buildBodyViewModel('earth', catalogues);
+    expect(model?.orbitalPeriodSource).toBe('derived');
+    expect(model?.orbitalPeriodDays).toBeCloseTo(365.25, 1);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves a moon without a period rather than inventing one', () => {
+    const model = buildBodyViewModel('luna', catalogues);
+    expect(model?.orbitalPeriodDays).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(model?.orbitalPeriodSource).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('marks a published exoplanet period as measured, not derived', () => {
+    const exoplanet: ExoplanetRecord = {
+      id: 'kepler-22-b',
+      hostStarId: null,
+      hostStarName: 'Kepler-22',
+      name: 'Kepler-22 b',
+      periodDays: 289.9,
+      orbit: { semiMajorAxisAu: 0.849 },
+    };
+    const model = buildBodyViewModel('kepler-22-b', {
+      bodies: [],
+      exoplanets: [exoplanet],
+      stars: [],
+    });
+    expect(model?.orbitalPeriodSource).toBe('measured');
+    expect(model?.orbitalPeriodDays).toBe(289.9);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves an exoplanet with no published period undefined rather than assuming a solar-mass host', () => {
+    const exoplanet: ExoplanetRecord = {
+      id: 'x',
+      hostStarId: null,
+      hostStarName: 'X',
+      name: 'X b',
+      orbit: { semiMajorAxisAu: 0.05 },
+    };
+    const model = buildBodyViewModel('x', { bodies: [], exoplanets: [exoplanet], stars: [] });
+    expect(model?.orbitalPeriodDays).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('returns undefined for an id in neither catalogue', () => {
+    expect(buildBodyViewModel('nowhere', catalogues)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('carries the host star id, so callers need not rescan the catalogues for it', () => {
+    expect(buildBodyViewModel('earth', catalogues)?.hostStarId).toBe(SUN_STAR_ID);
+  });
+});

src/app/features/body-detail/body-view-model.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+import { appearanceForBody, appearanceForExoplanet } from '../../shared/astro/body-appearance';
+import { EARTH_RADIUS_KM } from '../../shared/astro/planet-appearance';
+import { luminositySolar } from '../../shared/astro/stellar';
+import { bodyTexturePath } from '../../shared/rendering/texture-catalog';
+import { BodyRecord } from '../../shared/models/body.model';
+import { ExoplanetRecord } from '../../shared/models/exoplanet.model';
+import { StarRecord, SUN_STAR_ID } from '../../shared/models/star.model';
+import { BodyDetailViewModel } from './body-detail.model';
+
+/** Everything the view model is assembled from — the three catalogues, already loaded. */
+export interface BodyCatalogues {
+  readonly bodies: readonly BodyRecord[];
+  readonly exoplanets: readonly ExoplanetRecord[];
+  readonly stars: readonly StarRecord[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Bolometric luminosity of a star in solar units, from what the catalogue measured: apparent
+ * magnitude, parallax distance, and a bolometric correction read off the spectral type.
+ */
+export function luminosityOf(star: StarRecord | undefined): number | null {
+  if (!star) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  return luminositySolar({
+    magnitude: star.magnitude,
+    distancePc: Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z),
+    spectralType: star.spectralType,
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Builds the flattened view model for one body or exoplanet.
+ *
+ * Shared rather than duplicated per surface: the in-map card and the full detail page show
+ * overlapping subsets of the same quantities, and two independent assemblies of "what do we
+ * know about this world" is exactly the shape of bug where a planet reads 255 K in one panel
+ * and 254 K in the other.
+ */
+export function buildBodyViewModel(id: string, catalogues: BodyCatalogues): BodyDetailViewModel | undefined {
+  const body = catalogues.bodies.find((candidate) => candidate.id === id);
+  if (body) {
+    const hostStar = catalogues.stars.find((star) => star.id === body.systemStarId);
+    const periodDays = heliocentricPeriodDays(body);
+    return {
+      id: body.id,
+      name: body.name,
+      kind: body.kind,
+      hostStarName: hostStar?.name ?? 'Unknown star',
+      hostStarId: body.systemStarId,
+      radiusKm: body.radiusKm,
+      orbit: body.orbit,
+      appearance: appearanceForBody(body, catalogues.bodies, luminosityOf(hostStar)),
+      hasPhotography: bodyTexturePath(body.id) !== undefined,
+      orbitalPeriodDays: periodDays,
+      orbitalPeriodSource: periodDays === undefined ? undefined : 'derived',
+    };
+  }
+
+  const exoplanet = catalogues.exoplanets.find((candidate) => candidate.id === id);
+  if (!exoplanet) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  const hostStar = catalogues.stars.find((star) => star.id === exoplanet.hostStarId);
+  return {
+    id: exoplanet.id,
+    name: exoplanet.name,
+    kind: 'exoplanet',
+    hostStarName: exoplanet.hostStarName,
+    hostStarId: exoplanet.hostStarId ?? undefined,
+    radiusKm: exoplanet.radiusEarth ? exoplanet.radiusEarth * EARTH_RADIUS_KM : undefined,
+    massEarth: exoplanet.massEarth,
+    discoveryYear: exoplanet.discoveryYear,
+    orbit: exoplanet.orbit,
+    appearance: appearanceForExoplanet(exoplanet, luminosityOf(hostStar)),
+    hasPhotography: bodyTexturePath(exoplanet.id) !== undefined,
+    // `periodDays` is populated for none of the shipped records, and deriving one would need the
+    // host star's mass, which is equally absent. Left undefined rather than assuming a solar-mass
+    // host, which would silently mis-state the period of every planet around an M dwarf.
+    orbitalPeriodDays: exoplanet.periodDays,
+    orbitalPeriodSource: exoplanet.periodDays === undefined ? undefined : 'measured',
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Kepler's third law for a body orbiting the Sun: P² = a³ with P in years and a in AU, which
+ * holds exactly in these units because the Sun's mass is the unit of mass.
+ *
+ * Only for heliocentric orbits. A moon's elements are relative to its parent planet, whose mass
+ * the catalogue does not carry, so the same arithmetic there would be wrong by the ratio of the
+ * planet's mass to the Sun's — a factor of a thousand for Jupiter.
+ */
+export function heliocentricPeriodDays(body: BodyRecord): number | undefined {
+  if (body.parentBodyId !== undefined || body.systemStarId !== SUN_STAR_ID) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  const a = body.orbit.semiMajorAxisAu;
+  return a > 0 ? Math.pow(a, 1.5) * 365.25 : undefined;
+}

src/app/features/body-detail/info-panel.component.ts

@@ -1,21 +1,16 @@
-import { DecimalPipe } from '@angular/common';
-import { Component, input } from '@angular/core';
+import { Component, computed, input } from '@angular/core';
 import { Router } from '@angular/router';
 
-import { PLANET_CLASS_LABELS } from '../../shared/astro/planet-appearance';
+import { bodyReadouts } from './body-readouts';
 import { BodyDetailViewModel } from './body-detail.model';
 
-const KIND_LABELS: Record<BodyDetailViewModel['kind'], string> = {
-  planet: 'Planet',
-  moon: 'Moon',
-  dwarf: 'Dwarf planet',
-  exoplanet: 'Exoplanet'
-};
-
 /**
  * Displays the real NASA data for the currently selected body/exoplanet: kind, physical
  * size/mass, orbital elements, and (for exoplanets) discovery year. Presentational only —
  * `BodyDetailSceneComponent` supplies the view model and owns navigation state.
+ *
+ * The rows come from `bodyReadouts`, shared with the system view's object card so the same body
+ * cannot read differently in the two places it can be inspected.
  */
 @Component({
   selector: 'app-info-panel',
@@ -36,103 +31,44 @@ const KIND_LABELS: Record<BodyDetailViewModel['kind'], string> = {
 
       <header class="px-4 pt-4 pb-3">
         <h1 class="truncate text-lg leading-tight font-bold tracking-[0.04em] text-text uppercase">{{ body().name }}</h1>
-        <p class="mt-1 truncate text-[10px] tracking-[0.18em] text-accent uppercase">{{ kindLabel() }} · {{ body().hostStarName }}</p>
+        <p class="mt-1 truncate text-[10px] tracking-[0.18em] text-accent uppercase">{{ readouts().kindLabel }} · {{ body().hostStarName }}</p>
       </header>
 
-      <!-- Readout rows: label left, figure right, unit tinted back so the number is what the eye
-           lands on. Tabular figures keep the decimal points aligned down the column. -->
-      <dl class="divide-y divide-border/25 border-t border-border/40">
-        @if (body().radiusKm) {
-          <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Radius</dt>
-            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ body().radiusKm | number: '1.0-1' }} <span class="text-muted">km</span></dd>
-          </div>
-        }
-        @if (body().massEarth) {
-          <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Mass</dt>
-            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ body().massEarth | number: '1.0-2' }} <span class="text-muted">Earth masses</span></dd>
-          </div>
-        }
-        @if (body().orbit.semiMajorAxisAu) {
-          <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Semi-major axis</dt>
-            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ body().orbit.semiMajorAxisAu | number: '1.0-4' }} <span class="text-muted">AU</span></dd>
-          </div>
-        }
-        @if (body().orbit.eccentricity !== undefined) {
-          <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Eccentricity</dt>
-            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ body().orbit.eccentricity | number: '1.0-4' }}</dd>
-          </div>
-        }
-        @if (body().orbit.inclinationDeg !== undefined) {
-          <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Inclination</dt>
-            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ body().orbit.inclinationDeg | number: '1.0-2' }}<span class="text-muted">°</span></dd>
-          </div>
-        }
-        @if (body().discoveryYear) {
-          <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Discovered</dt>
-            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ body().discoveryYear }}</dd>
-          </div>
-        }
-      </dl>
+      <!-- Readout rows: label left, figure right. Tabular figures keep the decimal points
+           aligned down the column. -->
+      @if (readouts().measured.length) {
+        <p class="border-t border-border/40 px-4 pt-3 pb-1 text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Measured</p>
+        <dl class="divide-y divide-border/25">
+          @for (row of readouts().measured; track row.label) {
+            <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
+              <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">{{ row.label }}</dt>
+              <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ row.value }}</dd>
+            </div>
+          }
+        </dl>
+      }
 
       <p class="border-t border-border/40 px-4 pt-3 pb-1 text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Derived</p>
       <dl class="divide-y divide-border/25">
-        <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-          <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Class</dt>
-          <dd class="text-sm">{{ classLabel() }}</dd>
-        </div>
-        @if (body().appearance.equilibriumTemperatureK !== null) {
+        @for (row of readouts().derived; track row.label) {
           <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Equilibrium temp.</dt>
-            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ body().appearance.equilibriumTemperatureK | number: '1.0-0' }} <span class="text-muted">K</span></dd>
-          </div>
-        }
-        @if (body().appearance.bulkDensityGramsPerCm3 !== null) {
-          <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
-            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Bulk density</dt>
-            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ body().appearance.bulkDensityGramsPerCm3 | number: '1.0-2' }} <span class="text-muted">g/cm³</span></dd>
+            <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">{{ row.label }}</dt>
+            <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ row.value }}</dd>
           </div>
         }
       </dl>
 
-      <p class="border-t border-border/40 px-4 py-3 text-[10px] leading-relaxed text-muted">{{ surfaceProvenance() }}</p>
+      <p class="border-t border-border/40 px-4 py-3 text-[10px] leading-relaxed text-muted">{{ readouts().provenance }}</p>
     </div>
-  `,
-  imports: [DecimalPipe]
+  `
 })
 export class InfoPanelComponent {
   readonly body = input.required<BodyDetailViewModel>();
 
+  readonly readouts = computed(() => bodyReadouts(this.body()));
+
   constructor(private readonly router: Router) {}
 
-  kindLabel(): string {
-    return KIND_LABELS[this.body().kind];
-  }
-
-  classLabel(): string {
-    return PLANET_CLASS_LABELS[this.body().appearance.planetClass];
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Says plainly which of the two the viewer is looking at. The derived surface is a reasoned
-   * illustration, and a panel of real measurements sitting next to it is exactly the context in
-   * which it could be mistaken for another one.
-   */
-  surfaceProvenance(): string {
-    if (this.body().hasPhotography) {
-      return 'Surface: NASA/ESA/USGS photography.';
-    }
-    const temperature = this.body().appearance.equilibriumTemperatureK;
-    return temperature === null
-      ? 'Surface illustrated from this body’s measured size and mass. Its host star is not in the catalogue, so no temperature could be derived. Not an observation — no image of this world exists.'
-      : 'Surface illustrated from the measurements above — size, density and the temperature derived from its star’s output and its orbit. Not an observation — no image of this world exists.';
-  }
-
   goBack(): void {
     void this.router.navigate(['/']);
   }

src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import { OrbitControls } from 'three/addons/controls/OrbitControls.js';
 
 import { dateToJulianDate } from '../../shared/astro/constants';
 import { galacticCentrePositionPc, galacticToEquatorial, MILKY_WAY_ARMS, SUN_GALACTOCENTRIC_RADIUS_PC } from '../../shared/astro/galaxy';
-import { luminositySolar } from '../../shared/astro/stellar';
 import { DataLoaderService } from '../../core/data/data-loader.service';
 import { EngineService } from '../../core/engine/engine.service';
 import { BodyRecord } from '../../shared/models/body.model';
@@ -20,7 +19,11 @@ import { DeepSkyRenderer } from './deep-sky-renderer';
 import { galacticNormal, PolarGridPlane, TetherField } from './grid-plane';
 import { MilkyWayRenderer } from './milky-way-renderer';
 import { starGlowExtentAu, starMarkerRadiusAu, systemFrameRadiusAu, systemFramingDistanceAu, systemViewDirection } from './system-framing';
+import { formatAu, formatLuminosity, formatParsecs } from '../../shared/format/quantity';
+import { BodyDetailViewModel } from '../body-detail/body-detail.model';
+import { buildBodyViewModel, luminosityOf } from '../body-detail/body-view-model';
 import { HudReadout, StarmapHudComponent } from './starmap-hud.component';
+import { SystemObjectCardComponent } from './system-object-card.component';
 import { colorIndexToRgb, StarFieldRenderer, starRenderBudgetFromUrl } from './star-field-renderer';
 import { LabeledPoint, StarLabelOverlay } from './star-label-overlay';
 import { SystemOrbitsRenderer } from './system-orbits-renderer';
@@ -125,15 +128,6 @@ const EXIT_DURATION_SECONDS = 0.9;
 const RETURN_DURATION_SECONDS = 1.1;
 const GALACTIC_FLIGHT_SECONDS = 2.4;
 
-/** Camera range for the readout panel, in the unit that suits the distance. */
-function formatParsecs(distancePc: number): string {
-  return distancePc >= 1000 ? `${(distancePc / 1000).toFixed(1)} kpc` : `${distancePc.toFixed(distancePc < 10 ? 2 : 0)} pc`;
-}
-
-function formatAu(distanceAu: number): string {
-  return distanceAu >= 100 ? `${distanceAu.toFixed(0)} AU` : `${distanceAu.toFixed(2)} AU`;
-}
-
 /**
  * Where the camera sits to hold the whole Galaxy: above the disc and back past the Sun, looking
  * at the centre — near enough to the angle the Galaxy is usually drawn from, and it keeps the
@@ -157,7 +151,7 @@ function galacticOverviewPose(): { position: THREE.Vector3; target: THREE.Vector
 @Component({
   selector: 'app-galaxy-system-scene',
   providers: [EngineService],
-  imports: [StarmapHudComponent],
+  imports: [StarmapHudComponent, SystemObjectCardComponent],
   template: `
     <div class="relative h-full w-full">
       <canvas #canvas data-testid="scene-canvas" class="block h-full w-full"></canvas>
@@ -172,6 +166,9 @@ function galacticOverviewPose(): { position: THREE.Vector3; target: THREE.Vector
         [range]="hudRange()"
         (levelSelected)="goToLevel($event)"
       />
+      @if (objectCard(); as card) {
+        <app-system-object-card [body]="card" (dismissed)="dismissObjectCard()" (openRequested)="openObjectDetail(card.id)" />
+      }
     </div>
   `
 })
@@ -194,6 +191,15 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
   readonly hudNote = signal('');
   readonly hudRange = signal('');
 
+  /**
+   * The body whose card is showing: whichever is pinned by a click, else whatever the pointer is
+   * over. Undefined outside the system view, and cleared when the view leaves one.
+   */
+  readonly objectCard = signal<BodyDetailViewModel | undefined>(undefined);
+  private enterableSystems = 0;
+  private pinnedBodyId: string | null = null;
+  private hoveredBodyId: string | null = null;
+
   private controls?: OrbitControls;
   private rig?: CameraRigController;
   private starField?: StarFieldRenderer;
@@ -251,6 +257,7 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
     this.resizeObserver?.disconnect();
     this.canvasRef().nativeElement.removeEventListener('pointerdown', this.handlePointerDown);
     this.canvasRef().nativeElement.removeEventListener('click', this.handleClick);
+    this.canvasRef().nativeElement.removeEventListener('pointermove', this.handlePointerMove);
     this.controls?.dispose();
     this.starField?.dispose();
     this.deepSky?.dispose();
@@ -341,6 +348,8 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
     this.starsById = new Map(stars.map((star) => [star.id, star]));
     this.bodies = bodies;
     this.exoplanets = exoplanets;
+    // Which stars can be flown into: those with catalogued bodies of their own, plus the Sun.
+    this.enterableSystems = new Set<number>([...bodies.map((body) => body.systemStarId), ...exoplanets.map((exoplanet) => exoplanet.hostStarId)].filter((id) => id !== null)).size;
     // Built once rather than per label refresh: it is a scan of every body and exoplanet, and the
     // labels are recomputed whenever the camera moves.
     this.starIdsWithBodies = new Set([...bodies.map((body) => body.systemStarId), ...exoplanets.map((exoplanet) => exoplanet.hostStarId)].filter(
@@ -389,6 +398,7 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
 
     canvas.addEventListener('pointerdown', this.handlePointerDown);
     canvas.addEventListener('click', this.handleClick);
+    canvas.addEventListener('pointermove', this.handlePointerMove);
     this.observeResize(canvas);
 
     this.unsubscribeTick = this.engine.onTick((deltaSeconds) => this.tick(camera, deltaSeconds));
@@ -628,13 +638,19 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
 
     if (this.systemGroup.visible && star) {
       const planetCount = this.bodies.filter((body) => body.systemStarId === star.id && !body.parentBodyId).length + this.exoplanets.filter((exoplanet) => exoplanet.hostStarId === star.id).length;
+      const moonCount = this.bodies.filter((body) => body.systemStarId === star.id && body.parentBodyId).length;
+      const distancePc = Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z);
+      const luminosity = luminosityOf(star);
       this.hudEyebrow.set('System');
       this.hudTitle.set(star.name);
       this.hudSubtitle.set(star.spectralType ? `Spectral type ${star.spectralType}` : '');
       this.hudReadouts.set([
-        { label: 'Bodies', value: `${planetCount}` },
-        { label: 'Distance', value: `${Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z).toFixed(2)} pc` },
-        { label: 'Magnitude', value: star.magnitude.toFixed(2) }
+        { label: 'Bodies', value: moonCount > 0 ? `${planetCount} + ${moonCount} moons` : `${planetCount}` },
+        // Suppressed for the Sun rather than printed as `0.00 pc`, which is arithmetically right
+        // and reads as a bug: the distance from here to here is not a measurement.
+        ...(distancePc > 0 ? [{ label: 'Distance', value: formatParsecs(distancePc) }] : []),
+        { label: 'Magnitude', value: star.magnitude.toFixed(2) },
+        ...(luminosity !== null ? [{ label: 'Luminosity', value: formatLuminosity(luminosity), derived: true }] : [])
       ]);
       this.hudNote.set('Orbits propagated from published elements to the current date.');
       this.hudRange.set(formatAu(camera.position.distanceTo(this.controls?.target ?? GALAXY_OVERVIEW_TARGET)));
@@ -665,7 +681,9 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
       // what it draws. See `STAR_RENDER_BUDGET`.
       { label: 'Stars', value: this.starField && this.starField.drawnCount < this.stars.length ? `${this.starField.drawnCount} / ${this.stars.length}` : `${this.stars.length}` },
       { label: 'Radius', value: `${LOCAL_GRID_RINGS_PC[LOCAL_GRID_RINGS_PC.length - 1]} pc` },
-      { label: 'Exoplanets', value: `${this.exoplanets.length}` }
+      { label: 'Exoplanets', value: `${this.exoplanets.length}` },
+      // The one thing the field itself cannot show: which of those points can be flown into.
+      { label: 'Systems', value: `${this.enterableSystems}` }
     ]);
     this.hudNote.set('Positions from measured parallaxes. Grid marks the galactic plane through the Sun.');
   }
@@ -714,16 +732,76 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Picks a body in the system view. Clicking one pins its card; clicking empty space unpins,
+   * which is also how the card is dismissed without aiming for its close control.
+   *
+   * This used to navigate straight to `/body/:id`. That tore down the system scene and the camera
+   * with it, so comparing two planets meant flying back into the system between each — the card
+   * shows the same numbers over the live view instead, and `Full view` still opens the route.
+   */
   private handleSystemClick(): void {
     if (!this.systemRenderer) {
       return;
     }
     const [hit] = this.raycaster.intersectObjects(this.systemRenderer.pickableObjects);
     const member = hit ? this.systemRenderer.memberForObject(hit.object) : undefined;
+
+    this.pinnedBodyId = member ? member.id : null;
     if (member) {
       this.navigationStore.selectBody(member.id);
-      void this.router.navigate(['/body', member.id]);
     }
+    this.refreshObjectCard();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Hover preview, so a body's figures can be read without committing a click.
+   *
+   * The raycast is against the system's own handful of pickable meshes rather than the star field,
+   * so it stays cheap even on a software rasterizer — it is the rendering that is slow in that
+   * environment, not the picking. Skipped outside the system view and during a camera flight.
+   */
+  private readonly handlePointerMove = (event: PointerEvent): void => {
+    if (!this.systemRenderer || !this.systemGroup.visible || this.rig?.isAnimating) {
+      return;
+    }
+    const canvas = this.canvasRef().nativeElement;
+    const rect = canvas.getBoundingClientRect();
+    const pointerNdc = new THREE.Vector2(((event.clientX - rect.left) / rect.width) * 2 - 1, -((event.clientY - rect.top) / rect.height) * 2 + 1);
+    this.raycaster.setFromCamera(pointerNdc, this.engine.getCamera());
+
+    const [hit] = this.raycaster.intersectObjects(this.systemRenderer.pickableObjects);
+    const hoveredId = (hit ? this.systemRenderer.memberForObject(hit.object) : undefined)?.id ?? null;
+    if (hoveredId === this.hoveredBodyId) {
+      return;
+    }
+    this.hoveredBodyId = hoveredId;
+    canvas.style.cursor = hoveredId ? 'pointer' : '';
+    this.refreshObjectCard();
+  };
+
+  /** A pinned body wins over a hovered one, so the card does not change under the pointer. */
+  private refreshObjectCard(): void {
+    const id = this.pinnedBodyId ?? this.hoveredBodyId;
+    this.objectCard.set(id === null ? undefined : buildBodyViewModel(id, { bodies: this.bodies, exoplanets: this.exoplanets, stars: this.stars }));
+  }
+
+  /** Clears the card and everything that would bring it straight back. */
+  private clearObjectCard(): void {
+    this.pinnedBodyId = null;
+    this.hoveredBodyId = null;
+    this.objectCard.set(undefined);
+    this.canvasRef().nativeElement.style.cursor = '';
+  }
+
+  dismissObjectCard(): void {
+    this.clearObjectCard();
+  }
+
+  /** The deliberate step out to the dedicated route, from the card's own control. */
+  openObjectDetail(id: string): void {
+    this.navigationStore.selectBody(id);
+    void this.router.navigate(['/body', id]);
   }
 
   /** Reacts to `NavigationStore.selectedStarId` changes coming from any source (click/search). */
@@ -797,7 +875,7 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
     // exoplanets, so it has no meaningful direction and the renderer falls back.
     // The star's luminosity, derived from its own catalogued magnitude and distance, is what
     // decides how hot each body in the system is — and so what each of them looks like.
-    const hostLuminosity = luminositySolar({ magnitude: star.magnitude, distancePc: Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z), spectralType: star.spectralType });
+    const hostLuminosity = luminosityOf(star);
     this.systemRenderer = new SystemOrbitsRenderer(systemBodies, systemExoplanets, { x: star.x, y: star.y, z: star.z }, hostLuminosity);
     this.systemGroup.add(this.systemRenderer.object);
 
@@ -881,6 +959,9 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
 
     this.systemGroup.visible = false;
     this.galaxyGroup.visible = true;
+    // The bodies it described are no longer on screen, and a stale pin would otherwise survive
+    // into the next system entered.
+    this.clearObjectCard();
 
     camera.near = GALAXY_NEAR_PC;
     camera.far = GALAXY_FAR_PC;

src/app/features/galaxy-system/starmap-hud.component.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ import { ViewLevel } from '../../shared/state/navigation.store';
 export interface HudReadout {
   readonly label: string;
   readonly value: string;
+  /**
+   * True when the figure was computed from other measurements rather than catalogued directly.
+   * Marked in the panel and explained in its footnote, so a reasoned number is never mistaken for
+   * an observed one.
+   */
+  readonly derived?: boolean;
 }
 
 interface LadderStep {
@@ -101,14 +107,14 @@ const LADDER: readonly { level: ViewLevel; label: string }[] = [
           <dl class="mt-3 flex flex-wrap gap-x-6 gap-y-1">
             @for (readout of readouts(); track readout.label) {
               <div>
-                <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">{{ readout.label }}</dt>
+                <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">{{ readout.label }}@if (readout.derived) {<span class="text-accent/80" aria-hidden="true">*</span>}</dt>
                 <dd class="mt-0.5 text-sm text-text tabular-nums">{{ readout.value }}</dd>
               </div>
             }
           </dl>
         }
-        @if (note()) {
-          <p class="mt-3 border-t border-border/40 pt-2 text-[10px] leading-relaxed text-muted">{{ note() }}</p>
+        @if (note() || hasDerived()) {
+          <p class="mt-3 border-t border-border/40 pt-2 text-[10px] leading-relaxed text-muted">@if (hasDerived()) {<span class="text-accent/80">*</span> Derived, not catalogued. }{{ note() }}</p>
         }
       </div>
 
@@ -128,6 +134,9 @@ export class StarmapHudComponent {
   readonly readouts = input<readonly HudReadout[]>([]);
   /** Standing caveat for the current view, e.g. that galactic structure is a model. */
   readonly note = input('');
+  /** Whether any readout needs the derived-value footnote. */
+  readonly hasDerived = computed(() => this.readouts().some((readout) => readout.derived));
+
   /** Camera range, pre-formatted by the scene, which is the only thing that knows the units. */
   readonly range = input('');
   readonly showReticle = input(true);

src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-object-card.component.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+import { ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import { BodyDetailViewModel } from '../body-detail/body-detail.model';
+import { PlanetAppearance } from '../../shared/astro/planet-appearance';
+import { SystemObjectCardComponent } from './system-object-card.component';
+
+const appearance = (overrides: Partial<PlanetAppearance> = {}): PlanetAppearance =>
+  ({
+    planetClass: 'temperate',
+    palette: { structure: 'mottled' },
+    equilibriumTemperatureK: 255,
+    bulkDensityGramsPerCm3: 5.51,
+    polarCapExtentDeg: 25,
+    seed: 1,
+    ...overrides,
+  }) as PlanetAppearance;
+
+const earth: BodyDetailViewModel = {
+  id: 'earth',
+  name: 'Earth',
+  kind: 'planet',
+  hostStarName: 'Sol',
+  radiusKm: 6371,
+  orbit: { semiMajorAxisAu: 1, eccentricity: 0.0167 },
+  appearance: appearance(),
+  hasPhotography: true,
+  orbitalPeriodDays: 365.25,
+  orbitalPeriodSource: 'derived',
+};
+
+describe('SystemObjectCardComponent', () => {
+  let fixture: ComponentFixture<SystemObjectCardComponent>;
+
+  function render(body: BodyDetailViewModel): HTMLElement {
+    fixture.componentRef.setInput('body', body);
+    fixture.detectChanges();
+    return fixture.nativeElement as HTMLElement;
+  }
+
+  /** The label/value pairs under one of the two headings, in order. */
+  function block(host: HTMLElement, heading: 'Measured' | 'Derived'): string[] {
+    const headings = [...host.querySelectorAll('p')].filter((p) => p.textContent?.trim() === heading);
+    const list = headings[0]?.nextElementSibling;
+    return list ? [...list.querySelectorAll('dt')].map((dt) => dt.textContent?.trim() ?? '') : [];
+  }
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    await TestBed.configureTestingModule({
+      imports: [SystemObjectCardComponent],
+    }).compileComponents();
+    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(SystemObjectCardComponent);
+  });
+
+  it('files a period computed from the semi-major axis under Derived', () => {
+    const host = render(earth);
+    expect(block(host, 'Derived')).toContain('Period');
+    expect(block(host, 'Measured')).not.toContain('Period');
+  });
+
+  it('files a published period under Measured instead', () => {
+    // Same field, opposite heading — the provenance flag is what decides, not the field's name.
+    const host = render({ ...earth, orbitalPeriodSource: 'measured' });
+    expect(block(host, 'Measured')).toContain('Period');
+    expect(block(host, 'Derived')).not.toContain('Period');
+  });
+
+  it('omits the period entirely when there is none to show', () => {
+    const host = render({ ...earth, orbitalPeriodDays: undefined, orbitalPeriodSource: undefined });
+    expect(block(host, 'Measured')).not.toContain('Period');
+    expect(block(host, 'Derived')).not.toContain('Period');
+  });
+
+  it('never shows an empty Measured block', () => {
+    const bare: BodyDetailViewModel = {
+      ...earth,
+      radiusKm: undefined,
+      orbit: {},
+      orbitalPeriodDays: undefined,
+      orbitalPeriodSource: undefined,
+      discoveryYear: undefined,
+    };
+    expect(render(bare).textContent).not.toContain('Measured');
+  });
+
+  it('says a photographed surface is a photograph', () => {
+    expect(render(earth).textContent).toContain('photography');
+  });
+
+  it('says an illustrated surface is not an observation', () => {
+    expect(render({ ...earth, hasPhotography: false }).textContent).toContain('Not an observation');
+  });
+
+  it('explains a missing temperature rather than leaving the row blank', () => {
+    const host = render({
+      ...earth,
+      hasPhotography: false,
+      appearance: appearance({ equilibriumTemperatureK: null }),
+    });
+    expect(block(host, 'Derived')).not.toContain('Equilibrium temp.');
+    expect(host.textContent).toContain('host star is not in the catalogue');
+  });
+
+  it('emits rather than navigating, so the scene decides what selection means', () => {
+    const host = render(earth);
+    let opened = 0;
+    let dismissed = 0;
+    fixture.componentInstance.openRequested.subscribe(() => (opened += 1));
+    fixture.componentInstance.dismissed.subscribe(() => (dismissed += 1));
+
+    host.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>('button[aria-label="Close"]')!.click();
+    [...host.querySelectorAll('button')].find((button) => button.textContent?.includes('Full view'))!.click();
+
+    expect({ opened, dismissed }).toEqual({ opened: 1, dismissed: 1 });
+  });
+});

src/app/features/galaxy-system/system-object-card.component.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import { ChangeDetectionStrategy, Component, computed, input, output } from '@angular/core';
+
+import { BodyDetailViewModel } from '../body-detail/body-detail.model';
+import { bodyReadouts } from '../body-detail/body-readouts';
+
+/**
+ * The card shown for a body picked in the system view, without leaving it.
+ *
+ * Selecting a planet used to navigate straight to `/body/:id`, which tore down the system scene
+ * and the camera position with it — so comparing two planets meant flying back in twice. This
+ * shows the same numbers over the live view, and keeps the route as the deliberate step for the
+ * full 3D inspection.
+ *
+ * The rows themselves come from `bodyReadouts`, shared with the detail page. Presentational only.
+ */
+@Component({
+  selector: 'app-system-object-card',
+  changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush,
+  // Positioned and full-bleed like the HUD's own host, so the panel inside it resolves against
+  // the scene rather than against whatever box the inline default would have left it in — which
+  // put the card off the bottom-left corner of the viewport entirely.
+  host: { class: 'pointer-events-none absolute inset-0 block' },
+  template: `
+    <!-- Positioning and panel styling stay on separate elements, so the panel's own layout
+         never fights the absolute placement. Same organism as the detail page's info panel:
+         header, full-bleed readout rows, provenance, and a route rail — there at the top,
+         here at the bottom, because here the route is the next step rather than the way back. -->
+    <div class="pointer-events-auto absolute top-16 right-6 w-80 max-w-[calc(100%-3rem)]">
+      <div data-testid="object-card" class="hud-brackets hud-acquire border border-border/60 bg-panel/92 font-body text-text backdrop-blur-md">
+        <div class="flex items-start justify-between gap-3 px-4 pt-4 pb-3">
+          <header class="min-w-0">
+            <p class="truncate text-lg leading-tight font-bold tracking-[0.04em] text-text uppercase">{{ body().name }}</p>
+            <p class="mt-1 truncate text-[10px] tracking-[0.18em] text-accent uppercase">{{ readouts().kindLabel }} · {{ body().hostStarName }}</p>
+          </header>
+          <button
+            type="button"
+            (click)="dismissed.emit()"
+            aria-label="Close"
+            class="-mt-2 -mr-2 shrink-0 p-1 text-muted transition-colors hover:text-accent focus-visible:text-accent focus-visible:outline-1 focus-visible:outline-accent"
+          >
+            <svg class="h-3.5 w-3.5" viewBox="0 0 14 14" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round">
+              <path d="M3 3l8 8M11 3l-8 8" />
+            </svg>
+          </button>
+        </div>
+
+        @if (readouts().measured.length) {
+          <p class="border-t border-border/40 px-4 pt-3 pb-1 text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Measured</p>
+          <dl class="divide-y divide-border/25">
+            @for (row of readouts().measured; track row.label) {
+              <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
+                <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">{{ row.label }}</dt>
+                <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ row.value }}</dd>
+              </div>
+            }
+          </dl>
+        }
+
+        <p class="border-t border-border/40 px-4 pt-3 pb-1 text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">Derived</p>
+        <dl class="divide-y divide-border/25">
+          @for (row of readouts().derived; track row.label) {
+            <div class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4 px-4 py-2">
+              <dt class="text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase">{{ row.label }}</dt>
+              <dd class="text-sm tabular-nums">{{ row.value }}</dd>
+            </div>
+          }
+        </dl>
+
+        <p class="border-t border-border/40 px-4 py-3 text-[10px] leading-relaxed text-muted">{{ readouts().provenance }}</p>
+
+        <button
+          type="button"
+          (click)="openRequested.emit()"
+          class="flex w-full items-center justify-center gap-1.5 border-t border-border/40 px-3 py-2 text-[10px] tracking-[0.16em] text-muted uppercase transition-colors hover:bg-accent/8 hover:text-accent focus-visible:bg-accent/12 focus-visible:text-accent focus-visible:outline-1 focus-visible:-outline-offset-1 focus-visible:outline-accent"
+        >
+          Full view
+          <svg class="h-3 w-3" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round">
+            <path d="M9 6l6 6-6 6" />
+          </svg>
+        </button>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  `
+})
+export class SystemObjectCardComponent {
+  readonly body = input.required<BodyDetailViewModel>();
+  /** The close control, and anything else that should dismiss the card. */
+  readonly dismissed = output<void>();
+  /** Request for the full `/body/:id` route. */
+  readonly openRequested = output<void>();
+
+  readonly readouts = computed(() => bodyReadouts(this.body()));
+}

src/app/shared/format/quantity.spec.ts

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+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import { formatAu, formatDensity, formatLuminosity, formatMassEarth, formatParsecs, formatPeriod, formatRadiusKm, formatTemperature } from './quantity';
+
+describe('formatParsecs', () => {
+  it('switches to kiloparsecs past a thousand parsecs', () => {
+    expect(formatParsecs(8180)).toBe('8.2 kpc');
+  });
+
+  it('keeps two decimals only while they carry information', () => {
+    expect(formatParsecs(1.3)).toBe('1.30 pc');
+    expect(formatParsecs(250)).toBe('250 pc');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('formatAu', () => {
+  it('holds four decimals for close-in orbits', () => {
+    // 0.0026 AU is a real published semi-major axis; two decimals would render it — and every
+    // other hot Jupiter — as a flat 0.00.
+    expect(formatAu(0.0026)).toBe('0.0026 AU');
+  });
+
+  it('drops to whole units past 100 AU', () => {
+    expect(formatAu(120)).toBe('120 AU');
+    expect(formatAu(5.53)).toBe('5.53 AU');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('formatPeriod', () => {
+  it('uses hours below a day', () => {
+    expect(formatPeriod(0.5)).toBe('12.0 h');
+  });
+
+  it('uses days through the short end and years beyond', () => {
+    expect(formatPeriod(88)).toBe('88.0 d');
+    expect(formatPeriod(365.25)).toBe('365.3 d');
+    expect(formatPeriod(4332.6)).toBe('11.9 yr');
+  });
+
+  it('drops the decimal for periods of centuries', () => {
+    expect(formatPeriod(90_560)).toBe('248 yr');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('formatRadiusKm', () => {
+  it('groups thousands on both sides of the decimal threshold', () => {
+    // Not just above it: 69,911 km beside a bare 6371 km reads as two different conventions.
+    expect(formatRadiusKm(69_911)).toBe('69,911 km');
+    expect(formatRadiusKm(6371)).toBe('6,371 km');
+  });
+
+  it('keeps a decimal only for small bodies', () => {
+    expect(formatRadiusKm(11.3)).toBe('11.3 km');
+    expect(formatRadiusKm(1737)).toBe('1,737 km');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('formatMassEarth', () => {
+  it('scales precision to magnitude', () => {
+    expect(formatMassEarth(0.815)).toBe('0.815 M⊕');
+    expect(formatMassEarth(17.15)).toBe('17.15 M⊕');
+    expect(formatMassEarth(317.8)).toBe('318 M⊕');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('formatTemperature and formatDensity', () => {
+  it('rounds temperature to a whole kelvin', () => {
+    expect(formatTemperature(254.6)).toBe('255 K');
+  });
+
+  it('holds two decimals of density', () => {
+    expect(formatDensity(5.514)).toBe('5.51 g/cm³');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('formatLuminosity', () => {
+  it('stays decimal across the ordinary range', () => {
+    expect(formatLuminosity(1)).toBe('1.00 L☉');
+    expect(formatLuminosity(0.0017)).toBe('0.002 L☉');
+  });
+
+  it('goes to powers of ten at the extremes', () => {
+    expect(formatLuminosity(126_000)).toBe('1.3×10⁵ L☉');
+    expect(formatLuminosity(0.00004)).toBe('4.0×10⁻⁵ L☉');
+  });
+});

src/app/shared/format/quantity.ts

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+/**
+ * Formatting for every physical quantity the HUD and the body cards display.
+ *
+ * Shared rather than per-component so the same measurement reads identically wherever it
+ * appears. The rule throughout is that precision follows magnitude — a figure is shown to the
+ * digits that carry information at its own scale, not to a fixed decimal count that reads as
+ * false precision at one end (`0.00 pc`) and loses real information at the other (`26000 pc`).
+ */
+
+/** Distance in parsecs, switching to kiloparsecs where the number would otherwise run long. */
+export function formatParsecs(distancePc: number): string {
+  return distancePc >= 1000 ? `${(distancePc / 1000).toFixed(1)} kpc` : `${distancePc.toFixed(distancePc < 10 ? 2 : 0)} pc`;
+}
+
+/** Distance in astronomical units, for anything inside a system. */
+export function formatAu(distanceAu: number): string {
+  if (distanceAu < 0.01) {
+    // Close-in exoplanets: 0.0026 AU is a real, published semi-major axis, and two decimals
+    // would round every hot Jupiter in the catalogue to the same `0.00`.
+    return `${distanceAu.toFixed(4)} AU`;
+  }
+  return distanceAu >= 100 ? `${distanceAu.toFixed(0)} AU` : `${distanceAu.toFixed(2)} AU`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Orbital period in whichever unit reads naturally at its length — hours for the very short
+ * periods common among hot Jupiters, days up to a couple of years, then years.
+ */
+export function formatPeriod(days: number): string {
+  if (days < 1) {
+    return `${(days * 24).toFixed(1)} h`;
+  }
+  if (days < 700) {
+    return `${days.toFixed(days < 10 ? 2 : 1)} d`;
+  }
+  return `${(days / 365.25).toFixed(days / 365.25 < 100 ? 1 : 0)} yr`;
+}
+
+/** Radius in kilometres. */
+export function formatRadiusKm(radiusKm: number): string {
+  // Grouped on both sides of the decimal threshold: 69,911 km beside a bare 6371 km reads as two
+  // different conventions rather than one.
+  const digits = radiusKm < 100 ? 1 : 0;
+  return `${radiusKm.toLocaleString('en-GB', { minimumFractionDigits: digits, maximumFractionDigits: digits })} km`;
+}
+
+/** Mass in Earth masses. */
+export function formatMassEarth(massEarth: number): string {
+  if (massEarth >= 100) {
+    return `${massEarth.toFixed(0)} M⊕`;
+  }
+  return `${massEarth.toFixed(massEarth < 1 ? 3 : 2)} M⊕`;
+}
+
+/** Equilibrium temperature. Always a whole kelvin — the model is not good to a fraction of one. */
+export function formatTemperature(kelvin: number): string {
+  return `${Math.round(kelvin)} K`;
+}
+
+/** Bulk density. */
+export function formatDensity(gramsPerCm3: number): string {
+  return `${gramsPerCm3.toFixed(2)} g/cm³`;
+}
+
+/** Bolometric luminosity in solar units, which spans many orders of magnitude. */
+export function formatLuminosity(solar: number): string {
+  if (solar >= 1000 || (solar > 0 && solar < 0.001)) {
+    const exponent = Math.floor(Math.log10(solar));
+    return `${(solar / Math.pow(10, exponent)).toFixed(1)}×10${superscript(exponent)} L☉`;
+  }
+  return `${solar.toFixed(solar < 1 ? 3 : 2)} L☉`;
+}
+
+function superscript(value: number): string {
+  return `${value}`.replace('-', '⁻').replace(/\d/g, (digit) => '⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹'[Number(digit)]);
+}

src/app/shared/models/readout.ts

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+/** A labelled quantity ready for display — the shape every panel in the app renders. */
+export interface Readout {
+  readonly label: string;
+  readonly value: string;
+}