Center of Milky Way Pictured in 9-gigapixel Image

[the_brute]

I can see museums and colleges buying this full sized poster. This is very cool. And for a site with low views/small items to upload a ungodly huge file, what did they think would happen?

 

[jecastej]

I was ready to download. But now I will keep an eye waiting as I wont pass this opportunity to have such an amazing document in any chance.

 

[dotaloc]

[citation][nom]rutiger[/nom]"shows more than 84 million stars"I only counted 83,568,723 and wonder which ones I missed.[/citation]
Better start over. ;-p

 

[gti88]

Why didn't they share it through Torrent?

 

[mcd023]

I feel.....small

 

[velocityg4]

[citation][nom]MarcNBarrett[/nom]There is an easy way to solve bandwidth problems when proving files of considerable size: bittorrent.[/citation]

Then you get your connection throttled by your ISP and a warning letter for pirating. Since as far as they are concerned the only use for bittorrent is pirating media.

 

[Darkk]

"My god, it's full of stars"

 

[willard]

[citation][nom]velocityg4[/nom]Then you get your connection throttled by your ISP and a warning letter for pirating. Since as far as they are concerned the only use for bittorrent is pirating media.[/citation]
That's not how that works. The ISPs get contacted by people representing the studios of the movies you pirate. Your ISP has a vested interest in not really doing anything. Punishing you in any way could cost them money. They're not going out of their way to tick you off, it just happens.

 

[doive1231]

Yeah maybe we will spot the black holes soon. Joke - or maybe not.

 

[nibir2011]

[citation][nom]rutiger[/nom]"shows more than 84 million stars"I only counted 83,568,723 and wonder which ones I missed.[/citation]


LOL one of the best jokes

@tomshardware what is the size of a 9 gigapixel image

 

[rosen380]

Uncompressed with 24-bits per pixel would be 25GB... though given that the image is mostly black and white, I bet 8-bit would look about the same... 8 GB.

Compression varies by image, IDK, maybe 1-3GB?

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]wardoc22[/nom]Where can I download this?[/citation]
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080104.html

 

[fb39ca4]

They would need to release this using the google maps viewer.

 

[Guest]

Why hasn't anyone uploaded this as a torrent. Why don't these astro-scientists hire good IT?

 

[Puff3r]

You can view it online at GigaPan.