Astronomers have released the largest ever colour image of the whole sky, stitched from seven million images, each made of 125 million pixels.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's latest effort tops its own record, published publicly for professional astronomers and citizen scientists alike.
Data from Sloan has helped to identify hundreds of millions of cosmic objects.
The release was announced at the 217th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, US.
Researchers have released an animation on YouTube demonstrating how the incredibly high-resolution image is represented on the celestial sphere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMnSyYE1b0
Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-12167011
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's latest effort tops its own record, published publicly for professional astronomers and citizen scientists alike.
Data from Sloan has helped to identify hundreds of millions of cosmic objects.
The release was announced at the 217th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, US.
Researchers have released an animation on YouTube demonstrating how the incredibly high-resolution image is represented on the celestial sphere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMnSyYE1b0
Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-12167011
