Mapping the Galaxy with Kevin Jardine
What does our Milky Way really look like? Kevin Jardine is a cartographer working to answer that question by building galactic maps from ESA's Gaia space telescope data. Here he explains a little bit about his process and some of the amazing places he's found and mapped.
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Kevin Jardine's Galaxy Maps:
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Kevin Jardine's Galaxy Maps:
- Galaxy Map poster
- Gaia DR3 Hot Star Density Map (zoomable)
- Fantasy Map poster
- High Resolution Fantasy Map (zoomable)
- The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era (our solar neighborhood)
European Space Agency Gaia website
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