ESA Releases Largest Star Map Ever Online (gizmodo.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @07:00PM from the come-and-get-it dept.

S810 writes: The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a treasure trove of data from its Gaia Spacecraft; totaling around 1.7 billion stars. This star map is the largest of its kind to date. In addition to the star map, the data also contains motion and color data of 1.3 billion stars relative to the Sun. Furthermore, it includes "radial velocities, amount of dust, and surface temperatures of lots of stars, and a catalogue of over 14,000 Solar System objects, including asteroids," reports Gizmodo. You can view the data here, and view a guide for what the data contains and how to use it here.

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Re:Star map link very confusing by wbr1 · 2018-04-26 01:02 · Score: 4, Informative

It is rendered from the data, which is available in the other links. You want to render all the stars, grab the data and do so. For one, I am glad the image was not any larger - I do not need my browser to choke on that.

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