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The Milky Way in HTML5
- artie_effim 15y agoobligatory "My god, it's full of stars"
- ralfd 15y agoThat are many stars.
- canthonytucci 15y agoJust a few seconds of looking around and I had several"WTF is that?" moments...space is scary. [Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/K7GBt.png http://i.imgur.com/K7GBt.png) [Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/4Tg8y.png http://i.imgur.com/4Tg8y.png)
- glogla 15y agoWait what?
- simcop2387 15y agoThe first one looks like some kind of sensor/processing issue given how good the bands look on it. The second one...... I've got to agree with my sibling poster, wait wtf?
- dpcx 15y agoIt's gotta be the Death Star hurtling through space...
- FreeFull 15y agoSo I randomly zoom into a spot, and find the exact same place you have in the first place without meaning to. Can anyone calculate the chances of that?
- canthonytucci 15y agoIt's fairly close to the middle. Not sure if that makes a difference.
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- Hovertruck 15y agoThis is awesome! My only question, though, is why "in HTML5"? This doesn't really use anything from the new wave of "HTML5" technologies, save for some CSS3 dust. It's JS and images.
- padolsey 15y agoIt's the new buzzword. Everything new and cool is apparently "HTML5"...
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoEven the W3C seems to promote it this way. CSS3 is apparently an HTML5 feature or something.
- dlf 15y agoIt is. I'm not sure, since I'm not the creator. It's just what the description said where I saw it.
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- flingbob 15y agoMy little bullshit friday issues don't seem so important now.
- ORioN63 15y agohttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/04/to-grasp-a-billion-stars/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/04/to... Above, is a link of Phil Plait, explaining a feature on that same image: A star-forming region denominated G305. The read is worth the time!
- dlf 15y agoI thought that might be the case. I remember that being posted a few weeks ago.
- joering2 15y agocannot move anything in chrome. said loading 100%. nothing changes.
- developer9 15y agoAwesome! Now add video, hover-over info with links, and the rest of the universe! Am curious why this was done, though. Class project? There are already a few major implementations of this out there. But, it is cool to focus on the Milky Way. I was able to zoom in and see the center! How cool is that?
- mortenjorck 15y agoZooming into just one galaxy, ours, getting a feel for just how hopelessly vast it is, then recalling the Hubble Deep Field's panorama full of countless more galaxies an eternity away, brought one single thought to my mind: If there's life out there, and at that scale, there simply must be... The probability of us ever finding it before our sun collapses most likely rounds to zero.
- adamman 15y agoMaybe that is a good thing.
- kristopolous 15y agoActually I have a question ... maybe you can't answer it. But as we are looking for radio signals from other civilizations, what are we doing to make sure we continue to send out strong, unencrypted, easy to decipher signals from earth? To say that IP law will result in all terrestrial signals being encrypted in say, 150 years, is not unfathomable. Then, at that point, if the encryption is good enough, it will just look like noise to a would be discoverer of us.
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- matthewbadeau 15y agoI would hope that civilization is also attempting to discover life or to be discovered and such is broadcasting a strong unencrypted signal.