If future space travelers get lost during a regional trek, they might pull out a map based on recently released data plotting the positions of almost all the stars within 32.6 light years of our sun.

“We are explorers,” says Tri Astraatmadja at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, who was not involved in the work. “We want to know our world and the first thing we do is check what our neighborhood looks like.”

This map of local space was produced by …