This Is the Most Complete Picture of the Milky Way Ever Taken
How big is this photo? So big that just by taking it, astronomers found over 50,000 new stars and other bright space objects. The picture comes from astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Of course, this wasn’t a simple matter of an instantaneous point-and-click shot. Instead, to get the full spread, researchers spent a full five…