Orbit Map of the Solar System, 2019

Wall projection, 96 x 96 in.

Courtesy of the artist and TabletopWhale.com

Eleanor Lutz is a data visualization enthusiast and PhD candidate in the University of Washington’s Biology Department. Her map showing the orbits of more than 18,000 asteroids in the solar system includes everything over 10 km in diameter—about 10,000 asteroids—as well as 8,000 randomized objects of unknown size. It shows each asteroid at its exact position on New Years’ Eve 1999. It is the Copernican sky graph, 456 years later.