Grand mosaic of the Milky Way is now larger than ever (opens in new tab)

Author is a professional photographer. Suspect that, with an email and a pile of cash, they’d license you the work.

I also was hoping to find a higher resolution image I could buy to print out somehow. The full resolution is 18k x 120k pixels. At 300 DPI that works out to be 60 x 400 inches. Or 5 feet tall and 33 feet and 3 inches long, or close to 2 meters high and 10 meters long.

I think I might have a hallway that it could fit in, but wow that’s big!

He's selling (up to A2 or so) prints via https://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/ . Maybe you can contact him & ask for something larger.

Realistically, that seems pretty achievable goal for a Kickstarter? Rent some smallish exhibit space (500-1000sqft old warehouse or something?) in the valley/bay area outskirts for a few months, find a large format printer service, print out in strips, and figure out physical installation. How much can that really cost? $10-20k total? Somehow I feel its not far fetched that there would be a thousand geeks willing to chip in $10-$20 bucks for this sort of thing

So true. If I happen to be do something new, high risk or making me stress out thinking about it in context of the larger universe (and staring at these pictures help) quickly puts me at ease. Very effective. I have passed this to others over the years.

Complete with Carl Sagan's magestic description:

https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot

But for all we know the odds could be 1 in every 100 billion; we have no way of knowing, almost any guess you'd make is equally unfounded.

the candy might also be filled with razors and end all life on our planet though