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Ita projects like this that make us love the internet.

Paris-based engineering student Owen Cornec has taken Wikipedia, and all its pages of information, and turned it into a galaxy. Using HTML5, the student has turned the encyclopaedia website into an interactive visualisation that sees every page topic on the site become a star in a galaxy.

As technology advances, true 3D experiences are coming to our browsers. This brings us unprecedented opportunities for learning, discovery and creativity. I wanted to create something special I hadnt seen before, something I would have loved to see as a kid, said Cornec.

Ive always had a very visual way of thinking, and this is how I always pictured Wikipedia and the web as a whole.

As well as being able to fly in and out as you click on different stars, users can also read the full Wikipedia articles on different subjects. Each star also comes with a host of weaving lines stretching out into the virtual space these are the linked articles and a click on a line will carry you to the page. Press the Space bar and you can change the set of links shown on screen. Each star is colour-coded depending on the category it fits in to.

The page is fully animated, so keep a look out for other users whooshing past as they search this solar system for themselves.

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Wikipedia has been re-imagined as a galaxy