EPISODE · Dec 31, 2022 · 46 MIN
Mapping the Galaxy with Kevin Jardine
from Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation · host Joel McKinnon
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.Transcript: Web (Read/Listen) | PDF | MS WordKevin Jardine's Galaxy Maps:Galaxy Map posterGaia DR3 Hot Star Density Map (zoomable)Fantasy Map posterHigh Resolution Fantasy Map (zoomable)The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era (our solar neighborhood)European Space Agency Gaia websiteWant to help me make these shows? Please consider becoming a patron!
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