100,000 Stars

Otro de esos experimentos de Chrome que nos dejan con la boca abierta. Esta vez una simulación 3D donde de nuestra galaxia, donde se muestran cienmil de las estrellas más cercanas a nosotros, con toda la información correspondiente a cada una de ellas. Un planetario completo en línea…

 

100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist’s rendition based on NGC 1232, a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.

Instructions: Pan using your mouse and zoom in/out using your touchpad or mouse wheel. Click a star’s name to learn more about it.

Warning: Scientific accuracy is not guaranteed. Please do not use this visualization for interstellar navigation.

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100,000 Stars