100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by ajr0 » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 1:45 AM UTC

100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment
stars.chromeexperiments.com

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

#2

Post by dimgl » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:21 AM UTC

Every couple of years I'm reminded of the scale of the universe and I'm just as shocked every time.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by Mondialisation » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:27 AM UTC

dimgl wrote: post #2

Every couple of years I'm reminded of the scale of the universe and I'm just as shocked every time.

You're only reminded of the scale the universe is not

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by Aeolun » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:29 AM UTC

This doesn’t seem to actually display 100k stars though?

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by vermilingua » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:39 AM UTC

dimgl wrote: post #2

Every couple of years I'm reminded of the scale of the universe and I'm just as shocked every time.

Especially on realization that this 100k stars is only 0.0001% of the stars in our galaxy. It would take one million of these visualizations to represent the Milky Way.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by judge2020 » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:39 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #4

This doesn’t seem to actually display 100k stars though?

It should:

> It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by judge2020 » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:41 AM UTC

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702874

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by ccakes » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:57 AM UTC

dimgl wrote: post #2

Every couple of years I'm reminded of the scale of the universe and I'm just as shocked every time.

This is a great way to spend 10mins and have your mind blown at the same time

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by kaslai » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 2:58 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #4

This doesn’t seem to actually display 100k stars though?

100k probably just isn't as dense as you'd intuitively expect. As a sense of scale, 100,000 pixels is just shy of 5% of the pixels on a typical 1080p screen, so even with a radius of a few pixels per star, there will still be quite a bit of negative space given all the overlap.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by jmkim » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 3:10 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #4

This doesn’t seem to actually display 100k stars though?

Seems does. It shows when you click left-upper "statistics" button and zoom out. Their centre is the Sun, not the universe.

All the stars here: https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/data/stars_all.json