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Cygnus Constellation
The image depicts part of Cygnus, a northern constellation lying on the plane of the Milky Way.
Cygnus is one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, featuring a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross (in contrast to the Southern Cross), dominated by Deneb (Alfa Cygni), a blue-white supergiant star of visual magnitude 1.3, very bright despite its distance of some 3,200 light years from Earth. [**]
— Davide De Martin; Data credit: Caltech, Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey
From Astrophotographer Davide De Martin:
“There is no way to properly present a 2.5 gigapixel image on a computer screen (I am talking about 2.5 billion pixel, or 2500 megapixel, one thousand times higher than a modern digital camera, which can take pictures containing around 20-25 megapixel). For this reason,I thought a videoclip could do a better work showing how much there is in the image. My advise is to watch it with quality set at 720p or 1080p and on full-screen.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/649d0571ac52afcf1856fde2e8e5e31e/tumblr_mnynf2iBVQ1qbn5m1o1_500.jpg)
Cygnus Constellation
The image depicts part of Cygnus, a northern constellation lying on the plane of the Milky Way.
Cygnus is one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, featuring a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross (in contrast to the Southern Cross), dominated by Deneb (Alfa Cygni), a blue-white supergiant star of visual magnitude 1.3, very bright despite its distance of some 3,200 light years from Earth. [**]
— Davide De Martin; Data credit: Caltech, Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey
From Astrophotographer Davide De Martin:
“There is no way to properly present a 2.5 gigapixel image on a computer screen (I am talking about 2.5 billion pixel, or 2500 megapixel, one thousand times higher than a modern digital camera, which can take pictures containing around 20-25 megapixel). For this reason,I thought a videoclip could do a better work showing how much there is in the image. My advise is to watch it with quality set at 720p or 1080p and on full-screen.”
(Source: kenobi-wan-obi, via zanyon)
Bevshots are photographs of alcohol under a microscope. These high-quality photographs of your favorite beers, wines, cocktails, liquors, and mixers were taken after they were crytallized on a slide and shot under a polarized light microscope. As the light refracts through the beverage crystals, the resulting photos feature naturally magnificent colors and composition.
(via zanyon)
And so became the colors.
