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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 and got tired around 296,351,284,702. (Gizmodo)


WOW!

The mosaic is simply brilliant.
 
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Hellblazer

Re: Can You Count 400 Billion Stars In This Galaxy-Spanning Pano
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2010, 04:32:31 am »
Nice I bet they are using a software to calculate the spots on the mosaic :)

 

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