Finnish astrophotographer J.P. Metsavainio spent nearly 12 years capturing and piecing together the undulating sweep of our very own Milky Way galaxy in astonishing detail. After all those years of ...

Photographers have been busy capturing detailed gigapixel images from the London Olympics, including photos from the gymnastics and beach volleyball events. Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 2 years old. This colorful web of ...

Imagine trying to spot an individual pixel in an image displayed across 1,000 high-definition TV screens. That’s the kind of resolution a new kind of “compact” gigapixel camera is capable of producing ...

As the number of gigapixel images available increases – offering incredible detail from indecently high-resolution cameras – it seems all the more perverse to view them, as if peering through a ...

An artist has released a 17-gigapixel image of Yosemite National Park that he says is the largest stitched-together panorama available. Gerard Maynard, a New York based painter and photographer, put ...

As camera technology and editing techniques continue to improve, photographers are able to capture incredibly detailed snaps. From staggering landscapes to shots of the night sky, the number of ...

The ESO has released a three gigapixel image that captures three beautiful astronomical objects – the famous Eagle Nebula, the Omega Nebula, and the lesser known Sharpless 2-54 – in its scope. The ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but this just leaves us speechless. Pictured above is a compressed 108,500 x 81,500 pixel image of 84 million stars across central parts of the Milky Way.

Keeping up with technology is a constant race. Moore’s Law makes sure of that, despite recent news that the well-known processing power law (the doubling of transistors per unit area) will reach its ...

Charles Babbage’s difference engine—the mechanical precursor to today’s digital computers—is a beautifully intricate machine. Now, you can take a real close look at it using this gigapixel image.

Photographer Gerald Donovan channeled his inner Tom Crui se when he traveled to the top of the world’s tallest building, the 2,717-foot-tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai. But he didn’t end his journey at the ...