Comments on: Our Neighborhood

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:57:32 +0000

Very nice, but you really need to know which exoplanets are Goldilocks planets. I mean we’re finding these exoplanets with the hope of finding life when we go there; that rules out giants like Jupiter. So if some Magician of Time lands in his starship (there is no such thing as a faster than speed of light starship), we’d like to know which planet we might choose to immigrate to. Of course with general relativity time dilation, we don’t need faster that light travel to get there still young; but we still use biological deep hibernation and rejuvenation; as well as we quite a bit of cosmic ray shielding for starship safety. Well that’s the principle, and it’s already done. Of course the very existence of The Magician of Time is TOP SECRET. Local Earth politics like other planetary politics is very silly.

By: Jdhuey

Jdhuey — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:53:25 +0000

Of course if we let those Andromedaians move into our neighborhood….

By: Dave Gill

Dave Gill — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:47:25 +0000

To Michael (#4)
The technique used here is used extensively in drawings by Guy Ottewell in his awesome “Astronomical Companion” and the annual “Astronomical Calendar”. (For those of us Luddites who learned our night sky in the pre-PC days.
Dave

By: Local Emptiness « Hyper tiling

Local Emptiness « Hyper tiling — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:55:51 +0000

[...] Cosmic Variance, and Deepfly.org, some nice maps of the Solar Neighborhood, with some main (bright) stars and [...]

By: Gordan

Gordan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:53:25 +0000

Ahhh, Elite II: Frontier. Good times, annoying bugs…

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:27:21 +0000

You can also use Celestia (free & open-source) to get a much more cooler image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestia

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:23:46 +0000

Quoting http://www.deepfly.org/TheNeighborhood/6-NeighborhoodSphere.html

“The radius of the inner ring is 13 light years (4 parsecs); each successive ring represents an additional 13 light years. Numbers at the perimeter represent approximate right ascension, measured in hours. Asterisks indicate exoplanetary systems.”

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:20:16 +0000

Anyone else a fan of the game Frontier

By: chris

chris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:45:15 +0000

the plane is the galactic plane?

By: Michael Kingsford Gray

Michael Kingsford Gray — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:02:33 +0000

This is a very clear method of displaying 3D data in a 2D format.
I had not seen it done this way before.
Very impressive.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:03:55 +0000

Reality – WTF?

By: graviton383

graviton383 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:56:37 +0000

Very nice…thanks!

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:07:26 +0000

They need to update Fomalhaut with an asterisk.