Want to be blown away by the size and beauty of the Milky Way? daveachuk of Vancouver, Canada, created this 8-minute-long flythrough of our galaxy in 3D. It may look like a CGI rendering, but it�s not: it�s actually the result of combining over 400,000 photos captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope across various wavelengths and over 6 years. Gigapixels upon gigapixels of photos were processed and manipulated over 5 months of spare-time work to create what you see above.
Dave has posted a technical explanation of how the 3D effect was done over on Reddit.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.