Astronomers release biggest-ever image of the night sky
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Astronomers release biggest-ever image of the night sky
Footage from a new image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey consists of 1.2 trillion pixels and covers a third of the night sky. It captures half a billion individual stars and galaxies.
The new image is created from seven million images of the night sky. It consists of 1.2 trillion pixels. It covers a third of the night sky and captures half a billion individual stars and galaxies. Every yellow dot in the image above is a galaxy. If you could zoom in on these dots, you’d find a galaxy’s detailed structure and individual star-forming regions.
All of the imaging data for SDSS-III DR8 visualized. For the first half of the zoom, you are seeing the calibrated pixels; for the second half, the calibrated catalog. Construction of the frames involves touching every object in the entire DR8 catalog. The images and video were created with IDL, the SDSS-III photoop system, idlutils, imagemagick and ffmpeg. The data were taken as part of the SDSS, SDSS-II, and SDSS-III projects, with a 2.5-m Telescope at Apache Point Observatory. For more information see http://sdss3.org/ . Publication credit: David W. Hogg, Michael Blanton, and the SDSS-III Collaboration.
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