Quality 46 billion pixels: one image folds amazing details of the entire galaxy!

Last year, NASA launched the image of the Milky Way (Milky Way) the quality of 20 billion pixels, and is made up of 2 million aggregated picture of vast parts of our galaxy! Tell us the day (Robert Harte), imaging expert at the Spitzer Space Center, that if we wanted to print this image, we need to billboard-sized playground Ross Paul Rose Bowl! For more rounded image, this stadium which can accommodate more than 40 thousand spectators, with an area of 4,000 square meters! One image an area of 4,000 square meters!

Amazing, is not it? What do you say, then our image and we are talking about today is estimated at more than double the previous figure!

Five consecutive years, a team of scientists headed by Dr. Rolf Chini monitor our galaxy, the Milky Way, in pursuit variable gloss and brightness objects. These objects include, for example, the stars that pass in front of the planets, or a multiple of stars and solar systems, which obscures the star of what the other from time to time. To achieve this, the team picks up the eastern sky night after night; the aid in this Btleskobac Busham Bochum University Observatory's university observatory in Chile's Atacama deserts. Because of this, it was discovered more than 50 thousand variable gloss body had never registered before in the available databases.

Aracbah region that astronomers of the magnitude and breadth they had to be divided into 268 scale, and photographed each band over many nights degrees. By comparing the images captured, they can identify disparate and variable objects. Following this, the team collects all scattered images of the 268 domains in one image comprehensive; after data calculation period lasted for several weeks, they made a single image size of 194 GB All the captured images of different optical filters used to record and photograph all the bands! Quality 46 billion pixels, is this picture is the largest in the history of astronomy!

With the help of this tool, you can see the texture of our galaxy in a comprehensive manner, the Milky Way, in one look; or you can zoom and scan a particular region! Next image Akmenkm explains what to do.