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A GLIMPSE of the Milky Way

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[link=http://www.alienearths.org/glimpse/]http://www.alienearths.org/glimpse/[/link]
links to the viewer of the high-res pics of the milky way taken with normal camera and with infrared camera to penetrate dust clouds.

I thought it was pretty cool that astronomers have been using infrared light to catalog our galaxy :) It's kind of like using google maps but on a much bigger level.

[link=http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/astronomers-mak.html]original post from wired.com[/link]

-ken
 





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They've been studying all kinds of light for decades, so it's no suprise.  With powerful enough telescopes different wavelenghts of light allow them to find all sorts of things we can't see with visible light, so it's all common practice.  
 
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There is a program, worldwide telescope, it's like google earth for the sky, you can view all the different imagery UV, IR, XRAY, Gamma etc....
 
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When it comes to looking far into space, nothing comes close to Hubble's ultra deep field image. Thousands upon thousands of entire galaxies in one single image in the visible spectrum. Go outside and give a thumbs-up at arms length. The amount of sky your thumbnail covers is a hundred times larger than what you are looking at in this picture.
 
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Pictures like that are what made me decide to major in astronomy. The math and beaurocracy of the program are what made me drop the astro major.
 

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god thats amazing how many stars there are. it makes me think so deep. like, look how much space is out there, its infinite! woah....
 




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