Microsoft’s Terapixel Project Creates Clearest, Biggest Night Sky Map Yet
First they gave us a high-res tour of Mars — now Microsoft has made the largest and clearest night-sky map ever. It’s a terapixel image: 1,000,000,000,000 pixels. The software giant’s Terapixel project stitched together 1,791 pairs of red-light and blue-light plates from telescopes in California and Australia. The result is the map above, which covers…
