From Digg: The result of over 800,000 individual images collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope, it is the largest, highest-resolution, and most sensitive infrared picture ever taken of the Milky Way (and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future).
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5 Gigapixel Spitzer Image of the Milky Way
Posted on 04 June 2008 · 357 views · 74 words.
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