Comments on: And the baths of all the western stars, until I die

And the baths of all the western stars, until I die

blahblahblah — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:34:25 -0800

Under alien skies: Start with the simply stunning Exosolar, a flash-based interface for navigating through 2,000 nearer stars in 3-D, including all discovered planets outside our solar system. See what the skies would look like from other planets and suns. Explore star maps from many science fiction universes, from Star Trek to Dune. Watch the Big Dipper change its shape over a hundred thousand years. Zoom into a face-on map of the Milky Way that would cover 16 square meters if printed, and see the Atlas of the Universe. [prev. on extrasolar planets, prev. on star maps]

By: dopamine

dopamine — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:43:30 -0800

that Exosolar thingie makes me want to build up a fleet of battleships (to escort the colonizers) as i go from star to star.... space is going to be so fun to conquer.

By: acro

acro — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:55:45 -0800

thanks, 3blahs, flagged comprehensive nerdipedia

By: BostonJake

BostonJake — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:00:14 -0800

Thats awsome. Cool post. dopamine, your going to need to look into planet destroying capabilities

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:37:22 -0800

Poor Pluto. Banished from our happy little neighborhood.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Mon, 07 May 2007 00:10:42 -0800

Actually I was quite happy to see that Pluto wasn't on the list. Space just isn't a place to be sentimental.

By: dangerousdan

dangerousdan — Mon, 07 May 2007 02:27:25 -0800

blah^3 - this is gold. My eldest has just started "doing" Astronomy at school and now cannot wait to show this to her class tomorrow.

By: sea

sea — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:26:18 -0800

Thanks for the pointer. Will explore more later! I must mention my favorite though: www.shatters.net/celestia Alhough you do have to download & install an app, it's not web-based... it is worth it.

By: Nyrath

Nyrath — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:07:32 -0800

I'm the author of the Project Rho 3D star map site, and I'd like to point out that the rest of the site has instructions on how to make your own star maps. Teachers of astronomy and trigonometry may find this useful.

By: mctsonic

mctsonic — Mon, 07 May 2007 07:52:06 -0800

Very nice post - thanks for putting a good scope on my Monday.