"Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 26,000 miles and pieced together over 3,000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

i wonder if something changed in the original image that was posted 3 months ago. i looked for the original news entry but all i can find is links to this new entry posted btwn the 31st and today. - Carlos Ayala

i think i found what happened: "Received 2009 August 29; accepted 2009 September 21; published 2009 October 16" - Carlos Ayala