document updated 16 years ago, on Sep 10, 2008

3D visualizations — is there anything that allows easy viewing from somewhere other than camera=Earth?
- 14 ly
- 2,000 ly — Orion arm
- 5,000 ly — Orion arm
- 20,000ly — Perseus, Orion, and Sagittarius arms
- 5 mly
- National Geographic solar system map
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- 200 mly
- various, but kind of hard to see
Problem: Objects really are quite far apart, and this makes them hard to visualize.
- is it possible to visualize the extent of each objects' gravitational influence?