Most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way shows over one billion stars

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/09/29/shiningstar.html

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Hopefully this data can be made freely available to anyone and future space exploration games can make use of this data, it’s a bit frivolous I know, but 10 year old me would have been blown away by the knowledge that I was playing in as close a model of our galaxy as possible.

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No Man’s Sky mod in 3… 2… 1… :slight_smile:

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the data is available, start here.

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eta: just realised that I scooped @xeni by two weeks ; )

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But not billions and billions?

I expected more.

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The bad news is that they’re almost all just teeny little dots that don’t do anything.

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The beginning of this?

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