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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