Biggest-Ever Night Sky Image Released

[Cory the Otter]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/big-sky-image/

"The new image consists of 1.2 trillion pixels and covers a third of the night sky, capturing half a billion individual stars and galaxies. Every yellow dot in the image (above) is a galaxy, and zooming in on each dot reveals a galaxy’s detailed structure and individual star-forming regions."

I think this picture will be fun to toy with in an editor.

http://www.google.com/sky/

If you zoom in a couple of times, you are still barely seeing anything but galaxies.  You are but a nanomolecule upon a speck upon a speck upon the pimple of the ass of the galaxy; which in itself is a nanomolecule upon a speck upon a speck upon the pimple of the ass of the universe.

[Eat Uranium]

Meh.  Hubble Ultra Deep Field is far more noteworthy to me.

[stylie]

If memory serves, VonMudra's dad runs some sort of astronomy on-line shop? VM is that true? Post the site if you dont mine, I need a few parts for my Meade telescope. Its a real POS, but I do not feel like buying a new one at this time.