Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Jun 22, 2019 14:50:34 GMT 2
(.#210).- 100,000 stars of the galaxy "mapped" by Google.
100,000 stars of the galaxy "mapped" by Google.
By Tristan Vey and Sylvain Chatelain - Updated on 11/16/2012 at 15:49
The internet giant also offers the opportunity to make a dizzying leap from our star to an overview of the Milky Way.
The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of stars. A 3D representation proposed by Google to highlight the capabilities of its Internet browser Chrome shows 100 000 exactly where they are. It is possible to zoom in and zoom out to the Sun in this vertiginous interactive content to get an idea of the tremendous extent of our galaxy. To extend the experience by the imagination, it will be remembered that the Universe itself contains hundreds of billions of different galaxies.
Some rare stars, the eighty-seven most important of our immediate neighborhood, are clickable. The program then zooms to distinguish the star in close-up and get a short description from Wikipedia. This part of the program, developed as part of the "Google Chrome Experiments", is still quite unstable and does not always work.
F I N .
100,000 stars of the galaxy "mapped" by Google.
By Tristan Vey and Sylvain Chatelain - Updated on 11/16/2012 at 15:49
The internet giant also offers the opportunity to make a dizzying leap from our star to an overview of the Milky Way.
The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of stars. A 3D representation proposed by Google to highlight the capabilities of its Internet browser Chrome shows 100 000 exactly where they are. It is possible to zoom in and zoom out to the Sun in this vertiginous interactive content to get an idea of the tremendous extent of our galaxy. To extend the experience by the imagination, it will be remembered that the Universe itself contains hundreds of billions of different galaxies.
Some rare stars, the eighty-seven most important of our immediate neighborhood, are clickable. The program then zooms to distinguish the star in close-up and get a short description from Wikipedia. This part of the program, developed as part of the "Google Chrome Experiments", is still quite unstable and does not always work.
F I N .
