Do you know that a photographer from Finland has created a 1.7 gigapixel panoramic image of the Milky Way after 12 years of continuous hard work? Finnish astrophotographer JP Metsavainio started a challenging project in 2009 which was to create a picture collection of the Milkyway. Initially, he started focusing on different parts of the galaxy, and then by clicking a lot of images, he combined those images into a single big picture.
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| The entire Milky Way, as imaged by J-P Metsavainio. (Image credit: J-P Metsavainio) |
It took him 12 years and 1,200 hours to create the complete picture of the entire galaxy. The whole collection is about 100,000 pixels in width and contains 234 distinct mosaic panels. Metsavainio has captured the entire galaxy and 20 million stars present in the vast expanse of the Milky Way. The reason it took 12 years to create this entire mosaic was that the image is really of massive size and proportions. Another reason was that he created several smaller mosaics by clicking on each shot and then turned those mosaics into one large mosaic. And then all the individual mosaics were stitched together with the help of Photoshop and published as independent artwork.
The bubble nebula, which is 11000 light-years away from the earth, and the Tulip Nebula, the Elephant Trunk Nebula, and California Nebula discovered in 1884, are some non-stars of the Milkyway that have been captured in that photograph. Metsavainio also said that such a detailed and deep photo of the universe has been captured for the very first time.
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