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This doesn’t seem to actually display 100k stars though?

100k probably just isn't as dense as you'd intuitively expect. As a sense of scale, 100,000 pixels is just shy of 5% of the pixels on a typical 1080p screen, so even with a radius of a few pixels per star, there will still be quite a bit of negative space given all the overlap.

It should:

It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission.

Seems does. It shows when you click left-upper "statistics" button and zoom out. Their centre is the Sun, not the universe.

All the stars here: https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/data/stars_all.json

On my phone it took a bit for all the other stars to load beyond the local group. Maybe you didn’t wait long enough?

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