What if Celestia could be something like this?

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What if Celestia could be something like this?

Post #1by kristoffer » 14.11.2012, 21:19

Check this out, I saw that NASA shared it, on their Facebook page

It shows a 3D view of our stellar neighbourhood with 100,000 stars
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/
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Re: What if Celestia could be something like this?

Post #2by Cham » 15.11.2012, 01:27

I've done something similar for Celestia before, with fewer stars (just the "close" stars).
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Re: What if Celestia could be something like this?

Post #3by John Van Vliet » 15.11.2012, 02:47

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