The Largest Always Astronomical Map

The Carina Nebula

Astronomers at the Ruhr University Bochum inward FRG bring used the Leaflet mapping platform to exercise a Map of the Milky Way. The map is made from 268 private images too consists of roughly 46 billion pixels, making it the largest astronomical picture e'er created. Using the map the academy has been able to lay to a greater extent than than 50,000 novel variable objects which bring never been recorded before.

It took me a piece to realize only the coordinates box, inward the bottom left corner of the map, is genuinely a search box. This agency that you lot tin come inward the advert of private stars to discovery them on the map.

Unfortunately the map doesn't role the Leaflet-Hash plug-in too hence you lot can't link to specific views on the map. It would live on a unproblematic draw of piece of job to add together the plug-in to render dynamic URL's. This would allow users to part links to specific locations on the map.

You tin read to a greater extent than almost the map inward this press release from the Ruhr University Bochum.