What is Magix exactly?

Magix is one of the main settings for the Winx Club series. It's magical and its considered the centre of the universe. Besides that, we don't know that much about it. What is it? Is it just a city, a planet, a solar system, a galaxy? For sure, it comprises of one city, but the many (vague) references to Magix in the show also could also mean that Magix more than just a city. Let's explore the possibilities.

If Magix is just a city, than on what planet is it on? Is it even on a planet? Eraklyon, Domino, Solaria and Earth are separate planets and more than likely do not hold the city of Magix. Is Magix a planet as well as the name of one of its major cities? It's not impossible considering that in real life, Quebec is the name of a Canadian province as well as the name of its capital city.


Let's admit it now: this is astrophysically impossible and Earthlings would have to be completely blind to not notice the ten other moons and a microgalaxy. Source.

 On the other hand, the above picture seems to suggest that Magix is some sort of microgalaxy or even a portal in space. Let's not try to put too much realism into this image. Obviously, we don't know the scale of the planets and their distances away from each other because perspective is not an easy aspect to portray in space-related art, but let's assume that the creator's imagines that Magix is its own regular-sized galaxy for a moment. A galaxy is a vast number of stars, i.e. solar systems, held together by mutual gravitation. In other words, it's a bunch of stars orbiting around a point, just like how our planets orbit the Sun. Wouldn't the known planets or solar systems within the series have to be within reasonable travelling distance for them to even interact socially? Even if they had the use of portals, galaxies and solar systems are still moving objects and they tend to be very far from each other.

Lastly, what if that pink swirly thing in the picture was a portal of some sort? Where would it lead to? Magix can't be a magical paralell reality to Earth's non-magical one because Earth had magic before the events of the series, according to the events of season four. This nullifies the idea that magic is limited to one layer of reality.

There are the vague references to the "magical dimension," which semantically makes little sense at first. Dimension is defined as "a measurement of the something, such as height or width," but it is also synonymous for "confines" or "territory." With that in mind, it means that Magix does have a limited amount of space or mass or that it has some type of border. For sure, it has a physical presence.

What is Magix exactly? It could be a city, a planet, a solar system, a galaxy or something completely different from what is suggested. At the very most Magix has to be a planet, because the city, Alfea, Cloud Tower and Red Fountain have to be located on some planet.