A Chicago planetarium unveiled the 120-feet-long picture of our home galaxy this week
Posted 05.12.2020 at 6:45 am
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Spitzer's Milky Way Panorama: I can almost see my ... wait, never mind NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Wisconsin
Scientists constructed the mosaic from 800,000 individual images taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope during a five-year period. Pixel junkies can salivate at the thought of 2.5 billion pixels that help make the image pop.
Spitzer's infrared views covered about half the entire Milky Way in this particular view. For stargazers, that translates into an area of sky as wide as a pointer finger and as long as the length of arms wide open.People who can't get enough of galactic scenery can check out Spitzer's earlier collaborative work with the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which provides a three-way view of the Milky Way center.
[via SPACE.com]