{"id":2463,"date":"2009-09-15T10:15:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T17:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2009-09-15T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T17:15:54","slug":"panoramic-image-of-milky-way-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/09\/15\/panoramic-image-of-milky-way-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Panoramic Image of Milky Way Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MH9R6MpC3AQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MH9R6MpC3AQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Two French photographers, Serge Brunier and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Tapissier, spent weeks in the desert highlands of Chile, and a week in the Canary Islands, taking photos of the stars.  Using a Nikon D3 digital camera, they took thousands of photos of the night sky and then stitched the photos together to make a panoramic view of the Milky Way Galaxy as seen from Earth.  The pictures are extremely high-resolution because the photographers took them from some of the darkest spots on Earth, giving unsurpassed clarity of view.<\/p>\n<p>You can see an excellent interactive zoomable version of the image at photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sergebrunier.com\/gallerie\/pleinciel\/index-eng.html\">Serge Brunier&#8217;s web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also see a zoomable version of the image at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigagalaxyzoom.org\/\">Gigagalaxyzoom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two French photographers, Serge Brunier and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Tapissier, spent weeks in the desert highlands of Chile, and a week in the Canary Islands, taking photos of the stars. Using a Nikon D3 digital camera, they took thousands of photos of the night sky and then stitched the photos together to make a panoramic view of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,209],"tags":[628,630,629,2507,54,532],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-things","category-web","tag-astronomy","tag-galaxy","tag-milky-way","tag-photography","tag-science","tag-stars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}