The first images from inside the Las Vegas Sphere look absolutely stunning (now with added U2!)

First, though, let's deal with the exterior, which has been lighting up the Las Vegas skyline like an alien spaceship for a while now.

The exterior of the Sphere, called reasonably enough the Exosphere, is pretty much the largest LED screen on the face of this planet, and possibly a few others. 580,000 sq ft and fully programmable, it consists of approximately 1.2 million LED pucks spaced eight inches apart, with each puck containing 48 individual LEDs capable of displaying 256 million different colours. This canvas can display stunning and dynamic imagery unlike anything ever seen before – all at an unparalleled scale.

And in recent nights, it's been playing the first promo for Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard from Earth, which opens on October 6.

It's impressive. But the images from inside are perhaps even more spectacular, not in terms of what they show but in the way they give you a sense of the scale of the whole project.

There will be much more to come in the next week or so when the U2 residency opens the place on September 29 with the first of 25 performances of U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere. But for now, this gives you an idea of the stupidly Brobdingnagian size of it all - especially when the camera starts panning across to the production team.

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