1.70 million pixel panorama of the Milky Way

We live on the earth, but we are exploring outer space all the time, looking for the meaning of life from outer space and other planets similar to us. But with our current level of science and technology, it is really difficult to really explore outward, and we can only spy on a corner of the universe through a telescope.

Recently, a Finnish photographer, JP Metsavainio, took 12 years to shoot 1200 hours, and synthesized a1700 million pixel plan of the Milky Way through 234 images.

We may not know the concept of 65.438+0.7 billion pixels. The simplest and most popular one is a huge place in reality, which is also very small, very small, very small on this picture.

Under such circumstances, many people call it "Van Gogh starry sky plus edition" and "the ultimate romance of the universe".

Of course, few of us can see the beauty of the starry sky at night now, let alone such a vast and magical map of the Milky Way. In fact, we have never stopped exploring the universe. We are not only limited to its visual impact, but also can learn the secrets of the universe hundreds of millions or even tens of billions of years ago through it.

In fact, the photographer didn't plan to take a complete picture of the Milky Way when shooting the starry sky, but with more and more shots, he came up with the idea and then made up the missing ones when stitching.

1700 million pixel map of the Milky Way by JP Metsavainio.

In fact, NASA has also released a high-definition picture of the Milky Way in Juck Zhang, but the size of the picture is 24G. It takes a long time for a computer to open this picture. We can't see the original picture here, but we can look at the thumbnail and other NASA pictures of the Milky Way.

We can look at the first central point of the Milky Way first, and some places are red, which is the central area map below.

In fact, the center of the Milky Way is very crowded, with a black hole 4 million times the weight of the sun and millions of stars around it.

Our understanding of the universe is still very elementary and limited, but looking at the beautiful starry sky thousands of years ago, we can't help but feel the magic of the universe, which is dying all the time and being reborn all the time.

I don't know how long it will take for mankind to really enter outer space, find a new home, and begin to belong to the interstellar age of mankind written in science fiction.