"New Milky Way Map" Topic
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| Mako11 | 16 Jun 2015 11:41 a.m. PST |
Here's the most accurate map of our galaxy, created to date: link Enjoy! |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 16 Jun 2015 12:14 p.m. PST |
This puts the sun closer to the center than older maps.
I feel more important now! |
| John Treadaway | 16 Jun 2015 1:43 p.m. PST |
I do love the way that the grid still centers on the sun (even though we are not in the middle). Good map, though. John T |
| Mithmee | 16 Jun 2015 1:47 p.m. PST |
This puts the sun closer to the center than older maps.
I feel more important now! I thinking that getting closer to the center would be bad. |
| MHoxie | 16 Jun 2015 2:03 p.m. PST |
The Galactic Bar is the hip new place to hang out. |
| skippy0001 | 16 Jun 2015 6:35 p.m. PST |
Yup, we're too close-time to start a RingWorld kickstarter campaign. |
| Rabbit 3 | 16 Jun 2015 10:14 p.m. PST |
Main difference seems to be that the core is shown more as a bar than earlier maps which had it more spherical.
Probably still about as accurate as those old medieval maps that had Jerusalem in the middle though! |
| Mobius | 17 Jun 2015 7:04 a.m. PST |
From this map it looks like we are 25,000 ly from the center. But another 20,000 ly to the rim. So I don't know where the two-thirds the way out from the center comes from. |
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replaces his mysteriously missing frigates.