Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe (newscenter.lbl.gov) 3 points by gmays 24d ago ↗ HN
[–] therobot24 24d ago ↗ make sure you watch the youtube video embedded in the website, it adds some real perspective of just how massive this is [–] Snoeprol 23d ago ↗ Yep and the examples are really cool!
[–] br0ceph 24d ago ↗ is there anyway to download the entire map, and play with it locally [–] micromacrofoot 23d ago ↗ 5.6 trillion pixels uncompressed is somewhere in the range of 16TBbut check out https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/#PGC3097688 and https://datalab.noirlab.edu/data/legacy-surveys [–] cheesemonk66 23d ago ↗ This is beautiful and terrifying. Thank you for sharing.
[–] micromacrofoot 23d ago ↗ 5.6 trillion pixels uncompressed is somewhere in the range of 16TBbut check out https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/#PGC3097688 and https://datalab.noirlab.edu/data/legacy-surveys [–] cheesemonk66 23d ago ↗ This is beautiful and terrifying. Thank you for sharing.
[–] fercircularbuf 23d ago ↗ Wow, this is humbling [–] sambapa 23d ago ↗ In what ways? Galaxies are just fat fucks, they don't do no philosophy, play piano or shitpost. [–] Towaway69 23d ago ↗ If you squint, look at just the right portion, at just the right zoom level, the stars line up and spell out "thanks for all the fish". [–] nathan_compton 22d ago ↗ Presumably because even if galaxies are just big things, there are probably things in them that do philosophy, play pianos (roughly speaking) and shit post. [–] [dead] heroku 23d ago ↗ [dead]
[–] sambapa 23d ago ↗ In what ways? Galaxies are just fat fucks, they don't do no philosophy, play piano or shitpost. [–] Towaway69 23d ago ↗ If you squint, look at just the right portion, at just the right zoom level, the stars line up and spell out "thanks for all the fish". [–] nathan_compton 22d ago ↗ Presumably because even if galaxies are just big things, there are probably things in them that do philosophy, play pianos (roughly speaking) and shit post.
[–] Towaway69 23d ago ↗ If you squint, look at just the right portion, at just the right zoom level, the stars line up and spell out "thanks for all the fish".
[–] nathan_compton 22d ago ↗ Presumably because even if galaxies are just big things, there are probably things in them that do philosophy, play pianos (roughly speaking) and shit post.
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