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One-third.

The monumental mapping project of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has taken more than a dozen years and, in screen-size terms, holds than a trillion pixels. Reproducing it with the kind of detail needed to really appreciate its different features would take a video wall of about 500,000 HD televisions. And it's a picture of only one-third of the same sky my Lord can encompass with a single thought.

I don't know about you, but I needed that.