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  Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels is the largest astronomical image of all time Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 07:33 -0500
    Re: Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels is the largest astronomical image of all time jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-21 17:17 +0000

#527183 — Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels is the largest astronomical image of all time

Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels is the largest astronomical image 
of all time
> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-milky-photo-billion-pixels-largest.html#nRlv

> Astronomers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have compiled the largest
> astronomical image to date. The picture of the Milky Way contains 46
> billion pixels. In order to view it, researchers headed by Prof Dr
> Rolf Chini from the Chair of Astrophysics have provided an online
> tool (http://gds.astro.rub.de/). The image contains data gathered in
> astronomical observations over a period of five years.
>
> Five-year observation period at the university observatory
>
> For five years, the astronomers from Bochum have been monitoring our
> Galaxy in the search of objects with variable brightness. Those
> objects may, for example, include stars in front of which a planet is
> passing, or multiple systems where stars orbit each other and which
> obscure each other every now and then. In his PhD thesis, Moritz
> Hackstein is compiling a catalogue of such variable objects of medium
> brightness. For this purpose, the team from the Chair of Astrophysics
> takes pictures of the southern sky night after night. To this end,
> they use the telescopes at Bochum's university observatory in the
> Atacama Desert in Chile. More than 50,000 new variable objects, which
> had hitherto not been recorded in databanks, have been discovered by
> the researchers so far.
>
> 268 individual images make up the photo of the Milky Way
>

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:

Nothiny; just another cut and paste of what someone else wrote.

Have you ever wondered what your life might have been like if you had
the competence to do more than just copy the words of others, spamming
piece of shit?


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Jim Pennino

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