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Stars in Your Hand A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos

Kimberly Arcand

An illustrated guide to exploring the Universe in three dimensions. Astronomers have made remarkable discoveries about our Universe, despite their reliance on the flat projection, or 2D view, the sky has offered them. But now, drawing on the vast stores of data available from telescopes and observa...

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It was described as a gentle introduction to 3D printing the cosmos, offering a workbook style approach to help people experience the universe in a tactile way, through 3D printing models of celestial objects.

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You have a book that just came out? Yes. With the title, Stars in Your Hand, A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos.

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It was described as a gentle introduction to 3D printing the cosmos, offering a workbook style approach to help people experience the universe in a tactile way, through 3D printing models of celestial objects.

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You have a book that just came out? Yes. With the title, Stars in Your Hand, A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos.

But yeah, thank you for asking about the book. It's fun. I like writing.

And so for me, it was a great way to concatenate all of these cool 3D printable data sets of our cosmos into one place. It's just like a quick guide, if you will, to some of the cool sites to feel, I guess, versus the sites to see.

So things like exploding stars, galaxies, and constellations. I worked with a bunch of colleagues around the world and gathered a bunch of data sets into one place.

Okay, excellent. And it's out now? It is. It's out now. And it's meant to be a very gentle introduction.

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