Milky Way Awe: a 648-Megapixel Panorama of Our Galaxy

 

Piecing together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the panorama: "This panorama image shows stars 1000 times fainter than the human eye can see, as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae," Mellinger said. Mellinger spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan.

Source: http://io9.com/5394972/the-ultimate-space-porn-a-648-megapixel-image-of-our-galaxy

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[Amuro Ray]

that's what I call "love for our grandma"