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The Ultimate Space Porn: A 648 Megapixel Image Of Our Galaxy [Space Porn]
The Ultimate Space Porn: A 648 Megapixel Image Of Our Galaxy [Space Porn]
Physicist Axel Mellinger pieced together this image of the night sky out of 3,000 individual images. Mellinger traveled 26,000 miles, taking images in South Africa, Texas and Michigan, then added data from two space probes. Yes, it's hardcore. An earlier version of this panoramic image was an ...
Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy [Space]
Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy [Space]
gizmodo.com — Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 26,000 miles and pieced together over 3,000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled. Piecing together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a ... (more) Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a ...
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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] ...

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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