Design classic that it is, the London Tube map has been adapted, twisted and bastardised in any number of ways over the decades. Naturally, I’ve even corrupted it a couple of times myself. But this is, by several million light years, the most ambitious version yet.

Samuel Arbesman is a computational sociologist (?) at Harvard. He’s created this highly stylised galactic map to simplify our local neighbourhood. “Hopefully it can provide as a useful shorthand for our place in the Milky Way, the important sights and make inconceivable distances a bit less daunting,” he tells the Telegraph.

While the stops between intragalactic ‘stations’ are many light years apart, travelling from, say, Omicron Centauri to the Eagle Nebula should take about as long as a hop from Edgware to Tottenham Court Road in the rush hour.