Our Galaxy at 648MP

[tigerf117 10+ year member]

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 process of making the panorama in the forthcoming issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Interactive Image

Pretty cool stuff. 22 months in the making. Picture takes a while to load zoomed in, but worth it.

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[hatedonmostly 5,000+ posts]

Wow, CMU actually did something for once.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

where're the pics?

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

If anyone is interested in distributed computing, there is a project that helps amp our Milkyway. http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ I put my machines on it from time to time.

 

 

[tigerf117 10+ year member]

where're the pics?

Gotta click the link - it's an interactive picture, not a regular jpeg

 

[bhsdriller 10+ year member]

took too long to load

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

took too long to load

x2. My computers is an old POS. That could have something to do with it.

 

[Ken448 10+ year member]

looks like someone sneezed

 

[NoCoSPL 10+ year member]

Kinda scary in a way, what is space? Shits crazy

 

[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

Ok, i know alot about space, but i couldn't figure this thing out.

There's no perspective as to what you are looking at.

 

[hrtbrk1 5,000+ posts]

nice

 

[hoxie08 5,000+ posts]

lol wtf how is some of your computers not loading it? im on an eee pc on powersaving mode and its running just fine aand loading pretty fast actually.