It’s not the deepest image of the heavens or the sharpest. But on September 14, the European Southern Observatory released a panoramic view of the entire night sky that may be among the widest.
OUT THERE This panoramic view of the universe, centered on the Milky Way galaxy (horizontal swath), was stitched together using 1,200 images taken with an ordinary digital camera and provides a human-eye view of the cosmos.
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