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A very large photo

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Image: (Rijksmuseum)

You, who’ve familiarized yourself with every crack and scuff on the walls of your apartment over the past two months, can now examine every brushstroke of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch,” courtesy of a data scientist-led imaging team at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. They combined 528 images to reach 20 pixels per micrometer—that’s a 44.8-gigapixel image. Go nuts and zoom for days.