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Milky Way Shows 84 Million Stars in 9 Billion Pixels
Side Note: The two images shown above are mere crop outs from ESA’s recent hit: The 9 Billion Pixel Image of 84 Million Stars. These two focus on the bright center of the image for the purpose of highlighting what a peak at 84,000,000 stars looks like.
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have released a breathtaking new photograph showing the central area of our Milky Way galaxy. The photograph shows a whopping 84 million stars in an image measuring 108500×81500, which contains nearly 9 billion pixels.
It’s actually a composite of thousands of individual photographs shot with the observatory’s VISTA survey telescope, the same camera that captured the amazing 55-hour exposure. Three different infrared filters were used to capture the different details present in the final image.
The VISTA’s camera is sensitive to infrared light, which allows its vision to pierce through much of the space dust that blocks the view of ordinary optical telescope/camera systems.
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Nizar Qabbani
There is a place in Ireland where every two years on June 10-18 the stars line up with this bridge. It’s called heavens trail.
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demons run when a good man goes to war
night will fall and drown the sun
when a good man goes to war..
friendship dies and true love lies
night will fall and the dark will rise
when a good man goes to war..
demons run but count the cost
the battle’s won but the child’s lost…
Dr. Who, ‘A Good Man Goes to War’
Chat ganté n’a jamais pris de souris (A cat in gloves catches no mice).
Jean-Jacques Grandville, from Cent proverbes (one hundred proverbs), collective work, Paris, 1845.
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jared (Producer) writes:
I love this. And, I love the way you’ve laid this out graphically. Well done! I wonder if there’s a way to make some sort of audio/visual representation of this?
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a BLISSful creation: inspired from the RECords of themetafictionist and tori on hitRECord
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“I look at a star and it’s just a big ball of burning gas and I know how it began and I know how it ends and I was probably there both times. After a while, everything is just stuff! That’s the problem. You make all of space and time your backyard and what do you have? A backyard. But you, you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.”
it’s so bittersweet..
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River: I know. There’s a reason why I’m shooting, honey! What are you doing?
Doctor: Helping!
River: You’ve got a screwdriver. Go build a cabinet!
Doctor: That’s really rude!Doctor Who 6x02 : Day of the Moon
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"Pantophobia. Not fear of pants, though, if that’s what you’re thinking. It’s the fear of everything. Including pants, I suppose, in that case."
The Doctor (via fyeahdoctorwhoquotes)
