top | item 21141256 (no title) brownkonas | 6 years ago Is there any working directory of stars of the Milky Way with [x,y,z, t] coordinates ? a galaxy class coordinate system ? discuss order hn newest teamonkey|6 years ago If you're looking for a dataset, the GAIA project public data releases[1] are probably the best you'll find.[1] https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2 JoeDaDude|6 years ago I'm assuming something like the Gaia dataset was used to create this representation of stars near us?https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/ DennisP|6 years ago I've seen databases of nearby stars, with just the 3D coords. Biggest I think had 100,000 stars.I don't think we have detailed data for the 100 million stars of the entire Milky Way. mr_toad|6 years ago There’s at least 100 billion (not million). Maybe as many as 800 billion. We can’t see most of them. load replies (1)
teamonkey|6 years ago If you're looking for a dataset, the GAIA project public data releases[1] are probably the best you'll find.[1] https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2
JoeDaDude|6 years ago I'm assuming something like the Gaia dataset was used to create this representation of stars near us?https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/
DennisP|6 years ago I've seen databases of nearby stars, with just the 3D coords. Biggest I think had 100,000 stars.I don't think we have detailed data for the 100 million stars of the entire Milky Way. mr_toad|6 years ago There’s at least 100 billion (not million). Maybe as many as 800 billion. We can’t see most of them. load replies (1)
mr_toad|6 years ago There’s at least 100 billion (not million). Maybe as many as 800 billion. We can’t see most of them. load replies (1)
teamonkey|6 years ago
[1] https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2
JoeDaDude|6 years ago
https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/
DennisP|6 years ago
I don't think we have detailed data for the 100 million stars of the entire Milky Way.
mr_toad|6 years ago