Welcome to Galaxy Theme — a Jekyll theme set in deep space. Stars twinkle in a real-time canvas engine, shooting stars streak across the background, and nebula clouds drift behind the content.

What Makes This Theme Different

Most dark themes just use a dark background. Galaxy Theme builds an actual space environment:

• Canvas starfield — 320 stars rendered via requestAnimationFrame, each with individual twinkle speed and parallax depth relative to scroll
• CSS nebula layers — three animated radial gradients create atmospheric depth without images
• Shooting stars — pure CSS @keyframes animations, three lanes across the viewport
• Pulsar featured card — your latest post pulses with a ring animation, like a magnetar

Quick Configuration

galaxy:
  nebula: "purple"   # purple | blue | gold | cyan | red
  stars: "normal"    # sparse | normal | dense
  shooting_stars: true
  comet_progress: true

Change nebula: "blue" for a blue-white star cluster feel. Change to "gold" for a warm nebula aesthetic.

Writing Posts

Create files in _posts/ with filename YYYY-MM-DD-title.md:

---
layout: post
title: "My Deep Dive"
date: 2024-01-15
tags: [tutorial, css]
description: "Short excerpt for post cards."
---

Content goes here...

The first post automatically gets the “Pulsar” featured treatment on the home page.

Performance

The canvas starfield uses requestAnimationFrame with a single canvas — no DOM elements per star. On a mid-range device: ~0.1ms per frame for 320 stars.

Shooting stars use CSS animations only — zero JS.