BBC News - Sloan data yields biggest colour night-sky image ever: "Astronomers have released the largest ever colour image of the whole sky, stitched from seven million images, each made of 125 million pixels.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's latest effort tops its own record, published publicly for professional astronomers and 'citizen scientists' alike.
Data from Sloan has helped to identify hundreds of millions of cosmic objects.
The release was announced at the 217th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, US.
Researchers have released an animation on YouTube demonstrating how the incredibly high-resolution image is represented on the celestial sphere."
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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