The Milky Way, in 46 Billion Pixels

Well, this is cool: Astronomers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany have created a ridiculously huge 46 billion pixel map of the sky! According to the press release, it's the largest astronomical picture ever created in terms of pixel size (I have not heard of any larger, for what it's worth). Even better? It's interactive. You can pan around, zoom in and out, and fiddle with the colors, too. Here's the link to the map. But, a couple of caveats. It's not lightning-fast; I had to wait many...