12-year astrophotography mosaic of the Milky Way
12-year astrophotography mosaic of the Milky Way A Finnish astrophotographer spent nearly 12 years to build a mosaic of our galaxy It took 13 years for the Voyager 1 to take the iconicPale Blue Dot image, which was part of a mosaic of the solar system. The best observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, by the Planck Mission, took more than 4 years. The Hubble Space Telescope’s deep fields can take days observing distant galaxies. That’s astronomy — many observations take a lot of time; months, even years. Many of these ‘big’ space missions take years and included hun...
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