Firefly visualization of the ESA Gaia DR3 dataset

Still image from a Firefly video visualization of data from the the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite. The full demo enables users to explore all 1.46 billion stars in the Gaia DR3 dataset in real time. Firefly is a browser-based interactive particle visualization app created by CIERA researchers Alex Gurvich and Aaron Geller, in a joint venture with Northwestern IT’s Research Computing Services. 

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Credit: Alex Gurvich & Aaron M. Geller/Northwestern/CIERA and IT Research Computing Services

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