Experience the Milky Way via 46 billion pixels

[jedishrfu]

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/tech/ex...mage-ever-with-46-billion-pixels-1155060.html

See the Milky Way in one massive 194GB image:

http://astro.vm.rub.de/

 

[Borg]

It would be nice if it was searchable but it's still very impressive.

 

[jedishrfu]

That comes next when we need to navigate with warp driven ships.

 

[jedishrfu]

Some related work is shown in this documentary:



It looks like there may be an iPad app for it too although I don't know its name. (shown at around 6:30 into the video)

EDIT: I found the app:

http://www.skysurvey.org/story/