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theatlantic: 1 Picture, 9,000 Megapixels, 84 Million Stars What you see about is the center of our galaxy, as seen by the powerful Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) instrument in northern Chile—but it’s just a thumbnail of the largest catalog of stars ever made. The original image, navigable and zoomable here, covers 108,500 by 81,500 pixels (just under nine billion pixels or nine gigapixels). If you were to print it out at normal book-level resolution, it would be something like 30 feet wide and 23 feet tall. Read more. [Image: ESO]

theatlantic:

1 Picture, 9,000 Megapixels, 84 Million Stars

What you see about is the center of our galaxy, as seen by the powerful Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) instrument in northern Chile—but it’s just a thumbnail of the largest catalog of stars ever made. The original image, navigable and zoomable here, covers 108,500 by 81,500 pixels (just under nine billion pixels or nine gigapixels). If you were to print it out at normal book-level resolution, it would be something like 30 feet wide and 23 feet tall.

Read more. [Image: ESO]

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