Astronomy / Space Largest picture of the milky way released

[mmm]

I just wanted to share something awesome. The "Ruhr Universität Bochum" created a large picture of our milky way and made it available.
In total it's 194GB of data or 46 mrd. pixels.

Original post (german): http://aktuell.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/meldung/2015/10/meld02962.html.de
Online viewer: http://astro.vm.rub.de/

Database to look up coordinates: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fcoo
(make sure you select ICRS)

Have fun o7

 

[Cody]

We have an astronomy section - see here!

 

[M. Grey]

Thanks and wow!

 

[mmm]

We have an astronomy section - see here!

Thanks. I didn't notice...

 

[Hilight]

Excellent post OP. R+ for you. It reminds me of when I was young living way out in the country--the skies each night were amazing to see. We used to talk about how the plane of the galaxy was so full of stars it looked like a mist. These days I live in a huge city and I don't get to see many stars in the sky

 

[Yaffle]

Thanks. I didn't notice...

Moved it there.

 

[Patrick_68000]

We have an astronomy section - see here!

And a double thread

 

[Patrick_68000]

Moved it there.

Merge as binary stars ? https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=193868

 

[edd]

English version:
http://rubin.rub.de/en/largest-astronomical-image-all-time

Unfortunately, the claim that it is the largest astronomical image of all time is at best contentious, arguably wrong by quite a big margin.