One solar day , Nick Risinger , a 28 - class - old marketing director from Seattle , matte like he needed a change . So he step down his job , packed up six professional galactic camera , and hiked 60,000 miles through western United States and South Africa , taking 37,000 color word-painting of the night sky .
The consequence ? This 5000 - megapixel , interactive , zoomable map express our full Milky Way galax , mavin , planets , and the nebulae surrounding it . It ’s the enceinte - ever , true - color , 360 degree panorama of the empyrean — all created by this first - time astrophotographer . What ’s even more noteworthy is that it ’s considered better than former professional sky survey — like the Digitized Sky Survey of the eighties — which were shot only in crimson and blue .
According to Risinger , his objective was to create an figure of speech that had more real feeling : “ I wanted to make something that was a reliable representation of how we could see it , if it were 3,000 time brighter , ” he said . And lucky for us , he ’s made it freely available to the populace . you may see the incredible Photopic Sky Survey right here : [ Sky SurveyviaWired ]
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