150 Gigapixel View of Space

On Discover Magazine blog, the following article was posted (excerpt) :

The article links to the viewer the scientists have created. Here's a reduced-size screenshot of one zoomed-in section:

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Awesome!! To think that all those worlds could be populated!

 

That is amazing, I could spend all night digging around in there.

 

Yeah, when I see that I wonder how many of these stars have solar systems like ours ... what if every single one of them has an inhabited solar system? Stars so many they're like dust motes in a Sahara wind ...

Often in science fiction movies, you see only a few stars in an inky black, but when you look into the real space as it presents itself outside of Earth, there's no end to the number of visible stars.

 

I know what you mean, I just wanted to keep zooming in so I could see the planets and moons, that would be awesome.

 

Yeah, that would be awesome!! I hope someday we have the tech for that!

 

Astounding....