NASA Offers 360-Degree View of Our Galaxy Milky way

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A new, zoomable panorama from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows us our galaxy's plane all the way around us in infrared light. The 360-degree mosaic comes primarily from the GLIMPSE360 project, which stands for Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire. It consists of more than 2 million snapshots taken in infrared light over 10 years, beginning in 2003 when Spitzer launched.

“If we actually printed this out, we’d need a billboard as big as the Rose Bowl Stadium to display it,” said Robert Hurt, an imaging specialist at NASA’s Spitzer Space Science Center in Pasadena, Calif. “Instead, we’ve created a digital viewer that anyone, even astronomers, can use.” - See more at: http://interestingengineering.com/nasa-telescope-offers-360-degree-view-of-milky-way/#sthash.7vrrbVxW.dpuf

The 20-gigapixel mosaic uses Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope visualization platform. It captures about three percent of our sky, but because it focuses on a band around Earth where the plane of the Milky Way lies, it shows more than half of all the galaxy's stars. 

              Render of Spritzer telescope ("Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech")

Render of Spritzer telescope (Image Courtesy: NASA/Spritzer) - See more at: http://interestingengineering.com/nasa-telescope-offers-360-degree-view-of-milky-way/#sthash.k832QVGF.dpuf

The image, derived primarily from the Galactic Legacy Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire project, or GLIMPSE,
 is online at: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360

"If we actually printed this out, we'd need a billboard as big as the Rose Bowl Stadium to display it," said Robert Hurt, an imaging specialist at NASA's Spitzer Space Science Center in Pasadena, Calif. "Instead, we've created a digital viewer that anyone, even astronomers, can use."

 360 degree panaroma showing the slice of the galaxy being viewed ("Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech")

The Milky Way diagrams to the right of the panels show what slice of the galaxy is being seen. The center of the galaxy was the most widely covered and is shown in the second row. The outer regions of our galaxy, away from its bustling center, are in the last three rows. 

("Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech")

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