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spacefellowship.com - 21 days ago

1 Milky Way; 3,000 Images

— spacefellowship.com — Written by Nancy Atkinson What a gorgeous and immense image! And it’s full of stars! An astronomer from Central Michigan University has put together a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky , with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger stitched together ... (more) 1 Milky Way; 3,000 Images

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boinced.blogspot.com - 17 days ago

Milkyway@home

— boinced.blogspot.com —      So, what are these guys trying to do?  Well, according to their web site, they are "creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy. 1 "  So, they want a picture of the galaxy that we live in and they are using observations from ... (more) Milkyway@home

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RT @EBMRadio: Anyone have any tissues. I just... Well here: http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/ - Just wow. FAP FAP FAP 47 hours ago

The Milky Way like you've never seen it: http://bit.ly/mR1Mk. This is a photo! 6 days ago

....and understand how much of a mountainous personal accomplishment it is from something like this: http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/ 11 days ago

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Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way
Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the November issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . An interactive version of the picture can viewed on Mellinger's website: http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/ . "This panorama image shows stars 1000 times fainter than ...

Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — ... of the Milky Way. Credit: Dr. Axel Mellinger Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the November issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . An interactive version of the picture can viewed on Mellinger's website: http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/ . "This panorama image shows stars 1000 times fainter than the ...

1 Milky Way; 3,000 Images
International Space Fellowship — ... What a gorgeous and immense image! And it’s full of stars! An astronomer from Central Michigan University has put together a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky , with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger stitched together over 3,000 images to create this beautiful image, which also comes in an interactive version, showing stars 1,000 times fainter than the human eye can see, as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulas. View an interactive version at Mellinger’s website . Mellinger spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 ...