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Val Klump

100,000 Stars — Tour the galaxy in 3D, right in your browser.

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Val Klump
Quick clarification on the tagline - Technically, this isn't a tour of the galaxy so much as our solar system's "stellar neighborhood." The raw data includes the positions of 119,617 stars that are visible on Earth to the naked eye under perfect conditions, plus anything under 75 light years of the Sun. You can get all the location data here: http://www.astronexus.com/node/34