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To make this, I downloaded public data from Hipparcos, a satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 1989 that accurately measured over a hundred thousand stars.
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I used Hipparcos measured parallax of nearby stars as evidence against geocentrism.
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Jim Bumgardner, a software engineer specializing in visualizations who consults out of his home in Los Angeles, created this visualizer that utilizes data from the Hipparcos mission.
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If you thought Hipparcos satellite which was also ESA of 1991 was good, this one will provide the dynamical knowledge of our part of the Milky Way, and the information of the kinematics of the whole galaxy!
Obama to Unveil "Ambitous" Plan for NASA | Universe Today 2010
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The map displays 3000 nearby stars from the Hipparcos catalogue.
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The European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite operated for four years between November 1989 to March 1993 and was dedicated to the measurement of stellar parallax and the proper motions of stars.
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The European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite operated for four years between November 1989 to March 1993 and was dedicated to the measurement of stellar parallax and the proper motions of stars.
Google Sky Maps 2008
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The European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite operated for four years between November 1989 to March 1993 and was dedicated to the measurement of stellar parallax and the proper motions of stars.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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The map displays 3000 nearby stars from the Hipparcos catalogue.
Google Sky Maps 2008
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The map displays 3000 nearby stars from the Hipparcos catalogue.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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