[bestest]

an amazing 3d map implementation of the taken images here: https://archive.eso.org/scienceportal/home

[tpierce89]

I have no idea what I'm looking at, but it is neat.

[dylan604]

it's putting you in space from the vantage point of earth with the sun conveniently moved out of the way to not be blinded by it.

[m3kw9]

Uber will one day use this to plot my ride to planet Kepler 23420 1a

[BobaFloutist]

Spring for the UberX, fellow passengers can get pretty annoying over the decades.

[dylan604]

this is very impressive. what is the term for lining up multiple images at different "zoom" levels like this? is it any way similar to google earth/space.

[skaushik92]

Pyramid tiling is the general technique used by Google Maps and similar systems to track images as different zoom levels; also similar techniques are used for progressive rendering for example in JPEG 2000.

[malfist]

It's a mosaic, pretty common tool in astrophotography