Along the way milk is now as easy as clicking on a button with new zoom, 360 degrees mosaic NASA presented on Thursday at the Conference 2014 TED in Vancouver, Canada.The plagued panorama of stars in our Galaxy is built from more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken in the last 10 years by the space telescope of the NASA Spitzer.
"If in fact this is printed, we would need a billboard as big as the Rose Bowl Stadium to show it," said Robert Hurt, a specialist of images in the center of space science in Pasadena, California NASA Spitzer "instead, we have created a digital display that anyone, even astronomers, you can use".
Mosaic 20-gigapixel uses the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope viewing platform. Catches of around three per cent of our sky, but focuses on a band around the Earth where the plane of the milky way, that shows more than half of the stars in the Galaxy.
The image, derived mainly from project Galactic legacy flat half Survey Extraordinaire, or glimpse, is online at: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360
Spitzer, launched into space in 2003 and has spent more than 10 years studying everything from asteroids in our solar system to the most distant galaxies at the edge of the observable universe. At this time, has passed a total of 4.142 hours (172 days) taking pictures of the disc, or plane, of our Milky Way Galaxy in infrared light. This is the first time these images have been stitched together in a unique and expansive view.
Our Galaxy is a spiral disk flat; our solar system is located in the outer third of the milky way, in one of its spiral arms. When we look towards the center of our Galaxy, a crowded, dusty region full of stars we see. Visible light telescopes can not so far look in this region because it increases the amount of powder with distance, blocking visible light from the stars. Infrared light, however, travels through the dust and allows Spitzer to see beyond the center of the Galaxy.
"Spitzer is helping us to determine where it is located on the edge of the Galaxy," said Ed Churchwell, co-leader of the team of vision at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "We are mapping the placement of the spiral arms and draw the shape of the Galaxy."Using data from the view, astronomers have created more accurate map of the large star central bar that marks the center of the Galaxy, revealing the milky way is slightly larger than previously thought. Also see images have shown a Galaxy full of bubbles. These bubble structures are cavities around massive stars that blast of wind and radiation in your environment.
All together, data allow scientists to build a global model of stars and star formation in the Galaxy, what some people call the "pulse" of the via Lactea. Spitzer can see weak stars in the 'field' of our Galaxy, outer, darker regions that was explored before."There is much more low-mass stars now seen with Spitzer on a large scale, allowing a large study, "said Barbara Whitney of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-leader of the team's vision. "Spitzer is sensitive enough to pick up this and turned on all the 'field' with star formation".
The team of Spitzer previously published a compilation of images showing 130 degrees of our Galaxy, which focused on its Center. The new 360 degree view James Webb Space Telescope NASA next will guide the most interesting sites of star formation, which will make even more detailed infrared observations.Some sections of the mosaic GLIMPSE longer wavelengths of the NASA data included Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, which scans the whole sky in infrared light.View details are also part of a project of citizen science, where users can help catalog bubbles and other objects in our Milky Way Galaxy. To participate, visit: http://www.milkywayproject.orgThe laboratory of propulsion to Jet, Pasadena, Calif., manages the missions of NASA Spitzer and wise. The Spitzer Science Center is at the Institute of technology in Pasadena, California. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
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