Dramatic new portrait helps define Milky Way’s shape and contents

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Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA’s orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360 degree portrait of the Milky Way, providing new details of our galaxy’s structure and contents.

The new composite picture, using infrared images gathered over the last decade, was unveiled this week at a TED conference in Vancouver. The
Published at Fri, 21 MAR 2014 15:12:39 AEST