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NASA's Spitzer Team Releases Highest-resolution View of the Full Galactic Plane

Posted by samzenpus on from the we're-going-to-need-a-bigger-screen dept.

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.

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  1. oh wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    fuck medium.com

  2. Constellations by jfdavis668 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  3. Medium.com schill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anther post from "starts with a bang" a schill for medium.com