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NASA's Spitzer Team Releases Highest-resolution View of the Full Galactic Plane
StartsWithABang writes From our vantage point within the Milky Way, most of our 200-400 billion stars are obscured by the dust lanes present within. But thanks to its views in infrared light, the Spitzer Space Telescope can glimpse not only all of the stars and the dust simultaneously, it can do it at an alarming resolution. Recently, NASA has put together a 360 panorama of more than 2,000,000 Spitzer images taken from 2003-2014, and one astrophysicist has gone and stitched them together into a single, 180,000-pixel-long viewable experience that shows less than 3% of the sky, but nearly 50% of its stars.
Airplanes that can travel around the galaxy? Wow! Fast progress. How about a Galactic Boat now. And where's my flying car!
Table-ized A.I.
Whoa dude check out the alarming resolution on my new iPhone.
I've lived all my life in a city. I see up to 5 dim dots in the sky on a good night. Nothing as impressive as they show there.
Gotta hate light pollution.
still same unreadable website.
You mean 50 of the stars of this galaxy? There must be lots of galaxies that are not in our galactic plane.
Where is the torrent?
From the article. "and it’s a 180,000 pixel spectacular." Oooo. That's less than 1 megapixel. I think they meant 180,000 pixels wide.
You fail at adjectives.
fuck medium.com
It would help if they would identify which constellation you are viewing as you pan the image. Then you could put it into a better frame of reference as we see it in the sky.
Here is the real link.
Not likely.
Sorry wrong thread. Please mod it down. Thankx
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Anther post from "starts with a bang" a schill for medium.com
First, instead of linking a page that gives you eye strain and is generally a boil on the ass of the internet, please link to the actual source, as has been pointed out before.
And second, I think this link (the one mentioned above, not the one in TFS) should go to as many leaders of state as possible, just to help them put their own imagined importance into perspective.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I now have it; but I am now looking for a monitor that is wide enough ...
for the NCC-1701-E.
there must be a planet of various creatures doing various things like goofing off on forums while at work.
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