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Photo: stunning 648 megapixel image of the Milky Way

Monday, November 2, 2009
Photo: stunning 648 megapixel image of the Milky Way

Physicist Axel Mellinger spent nearly two years traveling 26,000 miles across South Africa, Texas and Michigan. What does he have to show for it? Well, he's cobbled together a stunning 648 megapixel panorama of the Milky Way as seen from Earth, using 3,000 individual photographs. The Central Michigan University professor wants to make the image available for planetariums, as it's large enough to s...


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