Someone built a map of the stars from Project Hail Mary, and it’s shockingly good
A developer has created an interactive star map based on the book Project Hail Mary, utilizing real astronomical data. The map incorporates data from ESA’s GAIA DR3 dataset, which includes information on over 1.8 billion stars. This project, shared on Hacker News, aims to provide an accurate representation of our local star system.
- ▪The interactive star map is inspired by the book Project Hail Mary and uses real astronomical data.
- ▪It was developed using ESA’s GAIA DR3 dataset, which maps over 1.8 billion stars.
- ▪The developer created a Python script to render the stars into custom images for the map.
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A developer has built an interactive star map inspired by the one featured in the book Project Hail Mary, and it uses real astronomical data to back it up. The book was recently developed into a movie of the same name, and it’s one of the best sci-fi movies of the year. The project was shared on Hacker News, where Val, who developed this project, explained that the map was built using ESA’s GAIA DR3 dataset, a star survey that mapped over 1.8 billion stars in our neighborhood of the Milky Way. The data includes star positions, colors, spectra, proper motion, and more, making this far more than a stylistic fan project. How accurate is it? I don’t know much about astrophysics, but by all accounts, the model seems to be pretty accurate.
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