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Wikipedia is a massive repository of information, and responsible for countlesssleepless nights as many of us fall down Wikipedia holes, clicking link after link until morning. If not for the search function (or ability to Google Wikipedia entries), the site wouldnt be very useful but this interactive nebula composed entirely of Wikipedia entries tries to be as useful as it is pretty.

Computer science student Owen Cornec created WikiGalaxy as an attempt to display Wikipedia entries in a more engaging way than the standard block of text. At the time of writing, the beta version of WikiGalaxy contains over 100,000 articles, as it proudly displays before launching. Be careful before you launch it, as it can be taxing on your rig. This 2.4GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM MacBook Pro can run it just fine, but if WikiGalaxy is open in the foreground tab of my browser, any application I put in the foreground of that will lag. Basically, if youre running WikiGalaxy and plan on multitasking, leave it in a background tab or minimize your browser.

Aside from the semi-sluggish multitasking, WikiGalaxy is super fun.You can click anywhere in the glowing nebula and fly to a quadrant, where each star represents a clickableWikipedia entry. Once selected, the text of the article will invoke on the left side of the page, while related links will appear on the right.Its useful more for when youre killing time and want to look at something pretty while learning, rather than when you need to look up something in a matter of seconds. WikiGalaxy does have a search feature, but at the moment it doesnt seem to be implemented, as I couldnt locate anything I entered.

The project is gorgeous give it a spin but nothing beats Wikipedias plain text search with an engine that wont lag your GChat windows.

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Wikipedia has been turned into an interactive nebula