This Photograph,

is truly out of this world,

 the one above is a huge digital poster and is constructed using 4,000 images, the seamless collage required over 1,060 hours of exposures,  to best view the image is to look at just small parts of it,

 like this above and others below,

a group of French amateur astrophotographers called Ciel Austral (“Southern Sky”) have shared a this 240-megapixel image of the Large Magellan Cloud (LMC),

 the individual photos that make up the 14,400-pixel-wide image were captured between July 2017 and February 2019, 

 using a 160mm refracting telescope at an observatory in Chile that is owned by the photographers,

 the colors in the image are not what you would see if you traveled 163,000 light years to get LMC. Ciel Austral used special filters that (based on which elements are present) highlight parts of the visual spectrum,

to see the full size image in all of its glory, head over to the Ciel Austral website, what a Herculean task to undertake, and what stunning images they achieved.