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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.

10 of 38 comments (clear)

  1. Alarming resolution? by slackware+3.6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoa dude check out the alarming resolution on my new iPhone.

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

    fuck medium.com

  3. 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.

  4. Actual link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the real link.

    1. Re:Actual link by kosh271 · · Score: 4, Informative

      And the page with download links for the full-res images (468M-1.38G in size)
      http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu...

  5. Re:Stars? What Stars? by TheCastro1689 · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

  6. Re:Galactic Plane? by Penguinisto · · Score: 2

    Is it just me or has affected ignorance become fashionable of late?

    I blame Beta.

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

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

  8. 2 things by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  9. I wanted a new desktop background ... by Alain+Williams · · Score: 2

    I now have it; but I am now looking for a monitor that is wide enough ...