Browsing the internet the other day I found some amazing work one man and his father had completed over the past year. Nick Risinger quit his job and travelled around the globe taking extremely well-planned photos to piece together an entire picture of the Earth's night sky. The picture itself is 5 gigapixels in size (5,000 megapixels) and was stitched together from 37,440 individual photographs. It features ten of millions of stars, red clouds of glowing hydrogen, and is absolutely breathtaking. The fact that the stars seen in this photo are thought to be less than 0.001% of the total in our galaxy alone is beyond belief and really poses the question - in time, what amazing thing will we discover throughout the universe?
The night sky
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