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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/25/original.png?quality=75640359You are looking at more than 84 million stars, the largest ever catalogue of the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astronomers at the Paranal Observatory in Cerro Paranal, Chile, stitched the nine gigapixels of the original image from thousands of individual infrared pictures. You can see the full, zoomable version here.