84 million stars  try to count them (just kidding ) . Astronomers at the Paranal Observatory in Cerro Paranal, Chile, took that picture … the picture with the largest number of stars 🙂  .For a zoom able version here .

stars at the heart of the Milky Way

An exo-tourist’s guide to our closest alien planet

just read it from New Scientist  here

“That means any inhabitants of the star system are now watching the season four finale of Lost and are in the middle of the Tenth Doctor’s run in Doctor Who.”

epic quote 🙂