This one is a visualization of the locations of over 100,000 nearby stars

[Sionyn]

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 catalogued 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.

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

[poptones]

[EEVblog]

It staggers me how they can map that many to begin with and get all the data.

Dave.

[SeanB]

10000 amateur astronomers took a century to gather the data..........