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Milky Way Shows 84 Million Stars in 9 Billion Pixels
Side Note: The two images shown above are mere crop outs from ESA’s recent hit: The 9 Billion Pixel Image of 84 Million Stars. These two focus on the bright center of the image for the purpose of highlighting what a peak at 84,000,000 stars looks like.
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have released a breathtaking new photograph showing the central area of our Milky Way galaxy. The photograph shows a whopping 84 million stars in an image measuring 108500×81500, which contains nearly 9 billion pixels.
It’s actually a composite of thousands of individual photographs shot with the observatory’s VISTA survey telescope, the same camera that captured the amazing 55-hour exposure. Three different infrared filters were used to capture the different details present in the final image.
The VISTA’s camera is sensitive to infrared light, which allows its vision to pierce through much of the space dust that blocks the view of ordinary optical telescope/camera systems.
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“I liked absurd paintings, decorations over doorways, stage scenery, traveling fairs, inn-signs, cheap colored prints, literature gone out of fashion, church Latin, exotic books with bad spelling, novels our grandparents read, fairy-tales, little books for children, old operas, meaningless refrains, crude rhythms.
I dreamed of crusades, unlogged journeys of discovery, republics with no history, wars of religions put down, revolutions in manners, races and continents on the move: I believed in each and every piece of magic.”
—Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell: ‘Second Delirium; Alchemy of the Word’
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Patrick Watson
—Adventures in Your Own Backyard
30,000 year old flower revived.
Scientists have resurrected a flower from plant tissues found frozen in Siberian permafrost, thought to be 30,000-32,000 years old. The new Silene stenophylla is healthy and fertile, and producing viable seeds.
The experiment has excited many because it proves that material trapped in the permafrost is recoverable and usable - scientists have been working to recover other species of plant and animal life from the same area, such as the woolly mammoth.
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