Every Star in the Sky, in One Picture [Help - It's ABSOLUTELY AMAZING]

ABC News/Technology ^ | 24 Feb 10 | Ned Potter

[XBob]

"It's just so amazing to see the band of the Milky Way arcing from one end of the horizon straight above you to the other," he said in an interview with ABC News. "And if you're in a really dark place, the light of the Milky Way can actually cast a shadow."

[XBob]

Such a view we have !!

Sorry, I don't know how to put up this new fangled html, so a little help please - this is just amazing.

[La Enchiladita]

GASP.

[Doogle]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/scientist-takes-pictures-entire-night-sky/story?id=9109202

[Textide]

Here's the link, thanks for the post!

http://galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/mwpan2/

[w1andsodidwe]

http://galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/mwpan2/

[Ramius]

Wow... big place.

[Doogle]

..makes a nice screen saver

[ETL]

Warning: long download time on this incredible image of our Milky Way galaxy.
However, I don't think you'll be disappointed!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/ESO_-_Milky_Way.jpg

[Doomonyou]

651

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

My house is third star from the right. And I’ll leave the light on.

[phrogphlyer]

[6SJ7]

... and that’s just the visible stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. Billions, and billions, and billions.

[Republic]

WOW! Thank you for posting this. Great story and beautiful photograph...two years of work and then some!

[camerongood210]

And they tell us there’s no God...

[mewzilla]

That is awesome. Thanks!

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

[hstacey]

That’s beautiful. Thanks for sharing!!!

[EDINVA]

And they tell us there’s no God...

for sure.

[A Cyrenian]

Can I get an AMEN?

[Fledermaus]

Thanks...great picture. Actually, with high speed cable internet and lots of gigs of memory it only took 3 seconds.

Sorry to brag! lol

[TigersEye]

"And if you're in a really dark place, the light of the Milky Way can actually cast a shadow."

True! I have walked through the forest by nothing but starlight. It's fun and a little spooky.