The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

Re:The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years by AtlasBarfed on Friday September 05, 2025 @06:55PM (#45144652)

I swear there used to be a 3d map that you could navigate, rotate zoom in zoom out of local space, but I can't find it anymore.

Does anyone else remember that or am I imagining it? I think it was like 10 years ago

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Re:The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday September 05, 2025 @08:18PM (#45145272)

https://www.reddit.com/r/askastronomy/comments/1bhklhd/what_...

https://chview.nova.org/solcom/index.html

edit: crossreference with https://gruze.org/galaxymap/map_2020/

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Re:The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years by d-moon on Friday September 05, 2025 @06:58PM (#45144675)

are you thinking about 100,000 stars? https://stars.chromeexperiments.com

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Re:The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years by stebalien on Friday September 05, 2025 @07:30PM (#45144948)

Stellarium? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)

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Re:The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years by bbor on Friday September 05, 2025 @08:46PM (#45145465)

There are attempts, but they all suck IMHO :( Someday I'll get around to doing this in Three.js for real, if no one beats me to it. It's shocking that we have a million 3D sites to visualize LEO satellites and plenty to visualize the solar system, but our stellar (much less galactic!) neighborhood is all super outdated stuff only.

I guess the sad reality is that these tools aren't that useful for anything but diagramming the odd interstellar rock.

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Re:The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years by wizardforhire on Friday September 05, 2025 @09:05PM (#45145601)

Celestia https://celestiaproject.space/

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