Milky Way’s star fields shown in largest astronomical image ever made
by Stuart Clark from on (#RCZP)
The largest astronomical image ever made has been released by astronomers, together with an online tool to help you explore it.
Lose yourself in the glorious star fields of the Milky Way. Astronomers at the Ruhr-Universitit Bochum (RUB) have compiled the largest astronomical image ever made and released it to the general public.
The full image is a mosaic of 268 individual images. It is contained in a single data file of 194 Gigabytes. Made up of 46 billion pixels, it is so huge that the astronomers have provided an online tool to help view it.
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