German astronomers have created the largest astronomical photo of our Milky Way galaxy ever, with a resolution of 46 gigapixel and which took 5 years to build.
Last year, NASA released a photo of our 20 analysis galaxy gigapixel consisting of over 2 millions of infrared photos. In January, NASA also published a photo of the 1,5 gigapixel analysis Andromeda galaxy. But it seems like someone wanted to compete
Researchers at University of Ruhr Bochum started setting up the huge photo half a decade ago when they were looking for objects in the space that changed their brightness over time. After dividing a section of the southern sky into 268 different sections, scientists spent days creating ultra-high-resolution images from the telescopes at the Cerro Armazones observatory in Chile.
After all the sections were photographed, the team "sewed" together these 268 giant photos into a super-giant photo with a resolution of 46-gigapixel and a size of only 194 gigabytes !!!.
The photo is so great you'll need to use this one interactive and direct viewerto see it correctly. Again you should be patient with its gradual download (depending on the speed of your connection) as you will zoom in on your areas of interest. At first it looks like an irregular panorama, but try the magnification and you will see why it is a total of 194 GB.
The researchers λένε ότι ανακάλυψαν πάνω από 50.000 μεταβλητούς αστέρες κατά την διάρκεια της fittingof the photo.
