The Whole Universe in One Picture Wall Art tapestry would have been just a

would have been just a cloud of gas and dust itself about ten million years ago

220 km away

was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope

This panchromatic frame was then colorized with the red

The Whole Universe in One Picture Wall Art tapestry would have been just aIt's a picture that shows everything. The whole universe. In the foreground, the Milky Way flies through the picture like a gigantic insect. The body shimmers cobalt blue, the wings shine yellow orange. More than 800,000 black holes sparkle in the background. "Isn't that overwhelmingly beautiful?" Asks Peter Predehl, 70. The astrophysicist from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching can get intoxicated by the magnificent