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Maps of the Milky Way based on Gaia DR3 from 10 parsecs to 12 thousand parsecs.
Includes two bonus maps made for Starfield, the video game from Bethesda Games Studios.

Click here to download the release notes as a pdf explaining how these maps were made.

Licence: Creative Commons By Attribution (4.0). Credit: Kevin Jardine / Galaxy Map

You can download bitmap images suitable for computer wallpapers from this page.

If you would like more detailed printable pdfs, visit this page.

If you can't decide what map you want, there is a poster that displays all nine of the main maps here (png format and pdf format).

You can see an older version of these posters here.

I am available for contract work on scientific visualization, cartography or virtual reality.
You can contact via my website at kevinjardine.dev or via Mastodon at @galaxy_map

Click on an image to download the related poster.

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