Massive Image Of Milky Way Contains 46 Billion Pixels

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  • 9 years ago
Our galaxy is massive, yet astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum have managed to pack an impressive amount of it into a single photo.

Our galaxy is massive, yet astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum have managed to pack an impressive amount of it into a single photo.
That picture contains about 46 billion pixels and has a file size of nearly 200 gigabytes. The primary objective in gathering the many images used in its making was to track light changes throughout the Milky Way. 

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