Believe me, you need this bit of space ASMR today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DtFRq1cgcc
Background info:
You are looking at the largest and most detailed image ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light.
Scientifically, the data will be used for microlensing surveys to find exoplanets - and is now fully publicly available. As are the pretty images if you want them as a desktop backgrounds, of course!
What I find incredible about the galaxy photos and videos is not that they can look so far and zoom in.
I understand that technology, lenses, dishes and recording, has evolved to such incredible resolutions.
What I find incredible is that their starting point is only a tiny little spot of what we see of the stars.
That you can point the dishes to any other spot, and see just as much as we see in this video.
All those stars. Most with planets.
Wombatadon
Dr. Victoria Grinberg
Leonieke
Knud Jahnke
Paul Schoe
Iris Volk
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
no_brainer