Friday, March 16, 2012

NASA's Epic Sky Panorama Created From 18,000 Images

NASA has released a gigantic catalog of the night sky that contains more than 563 million stars, galaxies, asteroids, planets, and objects. The images were captured by the infrared cameras of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, which has been collecting data for the past two years. After capturing more than 2.7 million images of the sky, NASA created by stitching together 18,000 of those images. You can view the panorama in a zoomable browser an epic panorama showing the entire sky here Or download the massive 180MP/73.5MB photographhere






*click full screen mode for the full effect*
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