How about this for a OT  topic

Everyone should go take a look at this and play around with it. 45 years
ago I wanted to build something like this using small lights and lots of
wire.  Being able to see it on my 23" computer screen via the laptop is
amazing and blows my mind.


New Chrome experiment maps 100,000 stars in interactive
visualization<http://9to5google.com/2012/11/14/new-chrome-experiment-maps-100000-stars-in-interactive-visualization/>

*100,000 Stars* is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood
created for theGoogle Chrome <http://www.google.com/chrome> web browser. It
shows the real location of over 100,000 nearby stars. Zooming in reveals 87
individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an
artist’s rendition.

http://9to5google.com/2012/11/14/new-chrome-experiment-maps-100000-stars-in-interactive-visualization/