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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumshave Google Chrome? Check out Google's incredible galaxy map
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/Google has mapped over 100,000 celestial bodies for this look at the Milky Way and the results are incredible. Check out our own little corner of the universe.
Just a reminder; it only works through Chrome.
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have Google Chrome? Check out Google's incredible galaxy map (Original Post)
Godhumor
Apr 2014
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joshcryer
(62,276 posts)1. That's pretty great. There's another program, called Celestia...
...that people may be interested in if they like that: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
neverforget
(9,436 posts)2. Pretty cool!
Thanks!
greyl
(22,990 posts)3. Working fine in Firefox here, far as I can tell.
edit: It should work in any WebGL enabled browser.
Internet Explorer is out, no surprise.
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)6. good to know n/t
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)4. Thank you
Love it.
catbyte
(34,393 posts)5. Way cool--thanks!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)7. Cool!!