Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Largest Picture of the Milky Way

Universe Today reported on the Largest Picture of the Milky Way Unveiled "The imaging team from the Spitzer Space Telescope today unveiled the largest, highest resolution infrared picture ever taken of the Milky Way. The photo spans 55 meters (180 feet), and takes up almost one entire wall in the huge exhibit hall here at the AAS meeting in St. Louis (above.) The image is made of 800,000 snapshots taken by Spitzer, amassing 39,000 X 6000 pixels, and shows an area of sky 120 degrees longitude by 2 degrees latitude."

There is also this less impressive online image:
milky_way_infrared_mosaic08 1.jpg


There's more in the article.

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