Mapping the Northern Sky(maps.com)
32 points by tmseidman | 10 comments
Maps.com article featuring Florian Winkler's star map of the stars, Messier objects, and constellations of the Northern Hemisphere sky.
#star-map on Hacker News
3 stories tagged star-map, newest first.
Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart(valhovey.github.io)
1146 points by speleo | 230 comments
An interactive 3D stellar navigation chart built from Gaia DR3 data, showing nearby stars and the Earth-to-Tau Ceti trajectory from Project Hail Mary.
A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)(longnow.org)
546 points by mkmk | 107 comments
Long Now Foundation article about the Hoover Dam's monument plaza, whose terrazzo star map encodes the 26,000-year precession of Earth's axis.