NASA WebGL of the Universe

by aronowb14on 10/31/2020, 8:01 AMwith 12 comments

by containeron 10/31/2020, 2:24 PM

Cool stuff. However, maybe the post could be titled "NASA WebGL of the galaxy", since it only seems to focus on the Milky Way.

by saagarjhaon 10/31/2020, 8:52 AM

If you're wondering about the non-uniformity, it seems like Kepler stares in certain directions a lot which means it finds more things there.

by andy_threos_ioon 11/2/2020, 12:07 AM

This is a 13 year old article about NASA go to metric.

https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html

Why on earth are they using miles on this webpage?

by njarboeon 10/31/2020, 6:08 PM

If you zoom out to about 100,000 light-years and rotate to above the ecliptic of the galaxy, then the software displays the rest of the stars in the galaxy also. A cool perspective on the data.

by brianush1on 10/31/2020, 1:50 PM

As usual with all the cool demos, seems to be broken on Firefox