Photographer captures entire Milky Way galaxy in one photo

[Swede]

A US photographer has captured the entire Milky Way galaxy in one photograph comprised of more than 37,000 images.

Seattle, Washington-based photographer Nick Risinger made the 5000-megapixel photo from 37,440 pictures, which he shot and stitched over the course of one year.

To make the photo, Risinger says he travelled 45,000 miles by air and 15,000 miles by land – roughly the equivalent of 2.5 passes around the equator – to photograph the sky from different locations around the globe.



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[bluestateguy]

1. How far is the Milky Way galaxy from the Star Wars galaxy

I think a manned mission to Coruscant should be in the cards.

[Hosnon]

2. Beautiful picture! But how far is 60,0000 miles?

And why does the caption of the picture claim that it is of the entire universe?

[Occulus]

7. More than 2 1/2 times around the equator

Just our galaxy. Keep in mind that there are an uncountable number- certainly in the billions- of galaxies out there as well, which puts the number of stars into the "inconceivably vast" category.

And many of those have planets, and many of those are probably within the life zone of its host star, and many of those probably have liquid water.How many is "many"? A large number, no matter the math.

There has to be other life out there, some of it intelligent. There just has to be.

[Lucinda]

3. Thank you! Bookmarking to read later.

[laconicsax]

4. While I'm happy to rec this post every time its made, how many more threads about this do we need?

There are already three threads about this.

From 5/4, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x78634
From 5/8, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x78836
From 5/11, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x78965

[TlalocW]

5. Well... not the ENTIRE Milky Way Galaxy...

Earth is noticeably absent.

TlalocW

[RevStPatrick]

6. Be sure to click on the link...

...for the high-res version.
Gorgeous!

[Auggie]

8. Mind-blowing