Visualizing 100,000 Stars In Chrome

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @09:42AM from the oh-my-god-it's-full-of-webgl dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has rolled out a new web experiment for Chrome. This one is a visualization of the locations of over 100,000 nearby stars. It pulls data from astrometric databases and catalogs to show accurate relative locations of the stars. You can zoom and pan around the cluster, zoom all the way in to the solar system, or zoom all the way out to see how even this huge number of stars is dwarfed by the rest of the Milky Way. It also has data on a number individual stars in our stellar neighborhood. This web app works best in Chrome (much like their previous one, Jam With Chrome), but I was able to try it in Firefox as well."

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Had Hollywood worried there for a moment... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-14 09:50 · Score: 1, Funny

...with a headline like that.
Re:Good try, but not as good as Celestia by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-14 09:56 · Score: 4, Funny

The Google engineer who developed this lost several descendants at the Battle of Wolf 359 you insensitive clod.
Re:Good try, but not as good as Celestia by jellomizer · 2012-11-14 10:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Google engineers don't have descendants.

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