The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds - Gaia Gigapixel Panorama
The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds This fine art print presents one of the most recognizable views of our galaxy: the luminous sweep of the Milky Way, shown together with the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two nearby satellite galaxies visible from the southern sky. The image was reconstructed from all-sky data collected by ESA’s Gaia mission, a groundbreaking space observatory mapping the positions, brightness, distances, and motions of nearly two billion stars. Rather than being a traditional photograph, this artwork is a data-driven reconstruction of the visible Milky Way, created through a dedicated processing workflow developed by Adam Jesionkiewicz. The final image required many hours of rendering, refinement, processing, and color grading to reveal the galaxy’s familiar glowing structure, dark dust lanes, bright central region, and the delicate presence of the Magellanic Clouds. It is a striking example of what Astrography stands for: scientific data transformed into a beautiful, museum-quality work of art.
Specifications
- Type
- Poster (Semi-Gloss), Fine Art (Matte)
- Size
- 90 x 40cm, 160 x 70cm, 220 x 100cm, 36" x 16", 63" x 28", 87" x 39"
Variants (12)
- Poster (Semi-Gloss) / 90 x 40cm — 75.00 USD — In stock
- Poster (Semi-Gloss) / 160 x 70cm — 169.00 USD — In stock
- Poster (Semi-Gloss) / 220 x 100cm — 219.00 USD — In stock
- Poster (Semi-Gloss) / 36" x 16" — 75.00 USD — In stock
- Poster (Semi-Gloss) / 63" x 28" — 169.00 USD — In stock
- Poster (Semi-Gloss) / 87" x 39" — 219.00 USD — In stock
- Fine Art (Matte) / 90 x 40cm — 77.00 USD — In stock
- Fine Art (Matte) / 160 x 70cm — 169.00 USD — In stock
- Fine Art (Matte) / 220 x 100cm — 219.00 USD — In stock
- Fine Art (Matte) / 36" x 16" — 77.00 USD — In stock
- Fine Art (Matte) / 63" x 28" — 169.00 USD — In stock
- Fine Art (Matte) / 87" x 39" — 219.00 USD — In stock
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