Picture captures a billion stars
Scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17539315

It is built from thousands of individual images acquired by two UK-developed telescopes operating in Hawaii and in Chile.


Dr Cross and colleagues have though produced an online interactive tool that allows the user to zoom in to particular areas. Even then, these smaller fragments of sky will contain thousands of stars