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03/10/2008

PICTURES: $770 Living World Model Puts a Galaxy in the Palm of Your Hand

Aside from being eye candy, this Living World model was "created using real space data culled by Eiichiro Kokubo, Assistant Professor at Japan's National Astronomical Observatory and Osaka University's Kato Tsunehiko." Product page. Click here for first picture in gallery.

This 12cm glass cube contains a pint sized model of our home galaxy. It's not just an abstract rendering; there are 80,000 individual points, representing the relative positions of 80,000 real stars, based on data from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory
[via OhGizmo - Dvice]

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This entry was posted on 03/10/2008 01:59am and is filed under Picture, Random, Space .
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Posted at 03/10/2008 04:16am by fragydig529
if it's $770 don't you think it should at least be centered?
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Posted at 03/10/2008 04:26am by bluelin3r
According to their website: "The reason the galaxy is positioned slightly to one side is that the Solar System (in other words, Earth) has been placed in the exact center." But lol, yea, it still looks wack by not being 'centered'
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Posted at 03/10/2008 05:30am by fragydig529
Ptch, I'd rather have it centered than have earth centered.
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