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Title: Can You Count 400 Billion Stars In This Galaxy-Spanning Panorama?
Post by: OneST8 on June 03, 2010, 02:26:05 AM

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Astronomers estimate that there are 200 to 400 billion stars in our galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way. I guess that someone tried to count them in this fully-zoomable, ultra-high-definition 800,000-image mosaic (http://bmgoau.cwahi.net/spitzer.html) and got tired around 296,351,284,702. (Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/5553428/400-billion-stars-in-a-800000+image-mosaic))

WOW!

The mosaic is simply brilliant.

Title: Re: Can You Count 400 Billion Stars In This Galaxy-Spanning Pano
Post by: Hellblazer on June 03, 2010, 04:32:31 AM

Nice I bet they are using a software to calculate the spots on the mosaic :)