Imaging recource: Explore the Milky Way in all its beauty with this record-breaking 46 gigapixel space panorama

    Thanks to the astronomers at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in Germany, you can now view a 46-billion pixel image of the Milky Way. This massive new image is currently the largest image of space ever created! The image, which was created using 268 separate sections, each of which was captured over the course of several days, is equivalent to taking 2,000 images of the Milky Way with a 20-megapixel camera. Or, put in similarly staggering terms, to view this entire image at 1:1 resolution, you would need 22,000 separate 1080p...
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