<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#33ccff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/28796cb8-4c51-4048-aeb2-08b172c1822a/1A8DFBAB-45B4-4880-A695-84FE56686D76/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space" style="font-size: 11px;">www.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space">3,000 images combine for Milky Way portrait</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space">Panoramic image shows stars 1,000 times fainter than human eye can see</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space">A new panoramic image of the full night sky — with the Milky Way as its centerpiece — has been made by piecing together 3,000 individual photographs.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space"><IMG vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" alt="Image: Milky Way " title="Image: Milky Way " src="http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/091030-tech-galaxy-composite.hlarge.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space"><P class="textBodyBlack">The panorama's creator, Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University, spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan.</P><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>"This <A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=091030-milky-way-02.jpg&cap=Axel+Mellinger%2C+of+Central+Michigan+University%2C+created+this+panorama+of+the+Milky+Way+from+3%2C000+individual+photographs+that+he+melded+together+with+mathematical+models.+Credit:+Dr.+Axel+Mellinger">panorama image</A> shows stars 1,000 times fainter than the human eye can see, as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae," Mellinger said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space">To combine these images, a simple cutting and pasting job would not suffice. Each photograph is a two-dimensional projection of <A href="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/spacewatch_010612.html">the celestial sphere</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space">Mellinger describes the image-making process in the November issue of the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33552821/ns/technology_and_science-space">The result is <A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=091030-milky-way-02.jpg&cap=Axel+Mellinger%2C+of+Central+Michigan+University%2C+created+this+panorama+of+the+Milky+Way+from+3%2C000+individual+photographs+that+he+melded+together+with+mathematical+models.+Credit:+Dr.+Axel+Mellinger">an image</A> of our home galaxy that no star-gazer could ever see</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A8DFBAB-45B4-4880-A695-84FE56686D76/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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