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Milky Way Photo with 46 Billion Pixels
It's the largest astronomical image of all time, used by astronomers in the search for distant exoplanets and multiple star systems.
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Oh my... This is amazing! I can preen lots of detail from this single enormous image. Bravo scientists and astronomers.