Massive Image Of Milky Way Contains 46 Billion Pixels
Geo Beats
2015-10-24
Views 2
Our galaxy is massive, yet astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum have managed to pack an impressive amount of it into a single photo.
Our galaxy is massive, yet astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum have managed to pack an impressive amount of it into a single photo.
That picture contains about 46 billion pixels and has a file size of nearly 200 gigabytes. The primary objective in gathering the many images used in its making was to track light changes throughout the Milky Way.
Our galaxy is massive, yet astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum have managed to pack an impressive amount of it into a single photo.
That picture contains about 46 billion pixels and has a file size of nearly 200 gigabytes. The primary objective in gathering the many images used in its making was to track light changes throughout the Milky Way.
Report form
RELATED VIDEOS
