Seldon Crisis – The Podcast

Mapping the Galaxy with Kevin Jardine


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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.

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Kevin Jardine's Galaxy Maps:

  • Galaxy Map poster
  • Gaia DR3 Hot Star Density Map (zoomable)
  • Fantasy Map poster
  • High Resolution Fantasy Map (zoomable)
  • The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era (our solar neighborhood)

European Space Agency Gaia website

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