Pulsars and our sun's location

January 16, 2016 6:23 PM

There is an interesting map showing the position of the sun on the golden record cover diagram from Voyager 1 and I would love to find the best-possible-quality version of the map of our sun's location based on 14 pulsars.

It was also on the Pioneer plaques.

High resolution PNG or vector graphic would be ideal.

posted by sindark to Science & Nature (4 answers total)

the wikipedia page links to the original 2k x 2k version.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:47 PM on January 16, 2016

And the wikipedia page you linked too has the graphics in SVG.
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 6:50 PM on January 16, 2016

Response by poster: I want just the pulsar map, ideally as close as possible to the version first created by Frank Drake, Linda Salzman Sagan, and Carl Sagan.

Any additional background on these messages would also be welcome.
posted by sindark at 4:58 PM on January 17, 2016

Response by poster: More information like this, for instance: Reading the Pioneer/Voyager Pulsar Map
posted by sindark at 5:13 PM on January 17, 2016