{"id":3198,"date":"2015-11-24T07:51:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2015-11-23T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T04:52:58","slug":"a-46-gigapixel-image-of-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/a-46-gigapixel-image-of-the-milky-way\/","title":{"rendered":"A 46-gigapixel image of the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cripes\u2014I remember when we lifted the 30,000-pixel\/2GB file size limit in Photoshop. Of this monster undertaking DP Review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/articles\/5817599570\/astronomers-create-46-gigapixel-image-of-the-milky-way\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Researches from German university Ruhr-Universitat Bochum spent half a decade creating the largest astronomical image created to date, a 46-gigapixel image of the Milky Way, which is now available via an interactive online viewer. The image is made up of 46 billion pixels, and the file weighs in at a hefty 194GB in size\u2026\u00a022,000 Full HD TV screens would be required to display it at its full resolution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the not-so-easy-to-navigate interface <a href=\"http:\/\/astro.vm.rub.de\/\">here<\/a>. [Via Steve Mansfield]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cripes\u2014I remember when we lifted the 30,000-pixel\/2GB file size limit in Photoshop. Of this monster undertaking DP Review writes, Researches from German university Ruhr-Universitat Bochum spent half a decade creating the largest astronomical image created to date, a 46-gigapixel image of the Milky Way, which is now available via an interactive online viewer. The image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}