NASA's Spitzer Team Releases Highest-resolution View of the Full Galactic Plane 38
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.
Galactic Plane? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Airplanes that can travel around the galaxy? Wow! Fast progress. How about a Galactic Boat now. And where's my flying car!
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Is it just me or has affected ignorance become fashionable of late?
I blame Beta.
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Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
Alarming resolution? (Score:3, Funny)
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The privacy of the stars is alarmingly threatened! Perhaps the government has finally over-reached its monitoring activities.
Stars? What Stars? (Score:1)
I've lived all my life in a city. I see up to 5 dim dots in the sky on a good night. Nothing as impressive as they show there.
Gotta hate light pollution.
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Yay linkspam (Score:1)
still same unreadable website.
Torrent? (Score:2)
Where is the torrent?
Low res (Score:2)
From the article. "and it’s a 180,000 pixel spectacular." Oooo. That's less than 1 megapixel. I think they meant 180,000 pixels wide.
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Or long?
Alarming resolution? (Score:1)
oh wow (Score:2, Interesting)
fuck medium.com
Constellations (Score:5, Interesting)
Actual link (Score:5, Informative)
Here is the real link. [caltech.edu]
Re:Actual link (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu... [caltech.edu]
50% of the stars in the sky? (Score:2)
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Medium.com schill (Score:2, Interesting)
Anther post from "starts with a bang" a schill for medium.com
2 things (Score:5, 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 [caltech.edu], 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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Because doing so earns him an entry in my "blocked webpages" list.
I wanted a new desktop background ... (Score:3)
I now have it; but I am now looking for a monitor that is wide enough ...
of all those billions and billions (Score:2)