Tour through the 10,000,000 stars closest to Earth in the Gaia DR2 data set.
Research team
• David Applegate, Google Research
• William Cook, University of Waterloo and Johns Hopkins University
• Keld Helsgaun, Roskilde University
Notes
For a guide to navigating the moving image, click the ⓘ button in the top right corner of the page.
Links to lots of information on the mathematical techniques we have employed can be found on the TSP home page.
The tour is rendered with the three.js JavaScript 3D library.
We thank Michael Boyle for suggesting the use of color hue to indicate the order stars appear in our solution.