Milky Way Glitters in Most Enormous Astronomical Image Ever

A new, insanely massive picture of the Milky Way — 46 billion pixels across — marks the largest astronomical image of all time, researchers say. The amazing view of the Milky Way was built out of 268 individual views of the galaxy that includes the sun and the Earth, captured night after night over the course of five years with telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert. The researchers made the zoom-able, searchable image available their website, so galactic explorers can scroll acro