https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/zoomable/
Click the hyperlink (not the image) above. This is a ZOOMABLE 9 billion pixel image with 84 million stars (thanks to Seth Godin’s blog for the link). Thanks to the European Southern Observatory for hosting this image.
Makes you think about our relative place in the universe. I’ve been fascinated with the night sky and have followed our exploits in astronomy, the Hubble, etc. BUT! to have a single image where you can click and zoom in (or shift click to zoom out) gives you a sense of the truly massive scale of our universe.
This reminds me of the movie we watched in elementary school: “The Powers of 10” from 1977 (see it here). What I did NOT know is that Morgan Freeman narrates a NEW version of the Powers of 10 that includes more modern discoveries (here!).
CMIO’s take? Humbling to say the least. How often do we get our nose off the grindstone and look up? And then to have such a depth of data and an amazing tool to zoom in and out of our place in the universe? Would that our EHR could do that as well… Hmm….
