Last week I shared a six minute video tour of the known
universe. That video does a great job of helping viewers
understand the scale of the universe. Today, through Google Maps
Mania I found a new Google Chrome Web GL Experiment called
100,000 Stars that also does a good job of helping viewers
understand the scale of the universe. 100,000 Stars is a
visualization of the 100,000 stars closest to Earth. You can
view the stars on your own or take an automated tour of the
stars. Applications for Education The 100,000 Stars tour does a
great job of putting distances between stars and planets into a
perspective that students can understand. 100,000 Stars uses Web
GL technology and you will have to use Google Chrome to view the
tour correctly.