Billions and billions of pixels ➡ This Mind-blowing Photo of the Milky Way Shows 84 Million Stars in 9 Billion Pixels http://t.co/fjPOm48t
October 27, 2012
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This Mind-blowing Photo of the Milky Way Shows 84 Million Stars in 9 Billion Pixels
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile have released a breathtaking new photograph showing the central area of our Milky Way galaxy. The photograph shows a whopping 84 million stars in an image measuring 108500×81500, which contains nearly 9 billion pixels.