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Gizmodo: Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy [Space]
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CrunchGear: This 648-megapixel image of the Milky Way will melt your brain
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Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy [Space]
Gizmodo —
... star light from unwanted background light. He could then edit out the varying background light in each photograph. That way they would fit together without looking patchy. The result is an image of our home galaxy that no star-gazer could ever see from a single spot on earth. Mellinger plans to make the giant 648 megapixel image available to planetariums around the world. [University of Chicago via Axel Mellinger via Examiner via io9]
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Photo: stunning 648 megapixel image of the Milky Way
DVICE Atom Feed —
... from unwanted background light. He could then edit out the varying background light in each photograph. That way they would fit together without looking patchy.
The result is an image of our home galaxy that no star-gazer could ever see from a single spot on earth. Mellinger plans to make the giant 648 megapixel image available to planetariums around the world.
Axel Mellinger, via University of Chicago, via Examiner, via io9
This 648-megapixel image of the Milky Way will melt your brain
CrunchGear —
... Central Michigan University, pieced together a 648MP image of the Milky Way from 3,000 pictures he took from all over the globe. He traveled 26,000 miles to South Africa, Texas, and Michigan over 22 months to take the necessary pictures. After all that, he still had to construct the picture, which included compensating for the two-dimensional images taken from different locations. But enough talk, the full zoomable image is available at his website.
[Axel Mellinger via IO9]
You are nothing. Find yourself on this 648-Megapixel image of our Galaxy
The Next Web —
... background light. He could then edit out the varying background light in each photograph. That way they would fit together without looking patchy.
The result is an image of our home galaxy that no star-gazer could ever see from a single spot on earth. Mellinger plans to make the giant 648 megapixel image available to planetariums around the world.
[Gizmodo viaUniversity of Chicago via Axel Mellinger via Examiner via io9] ...

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