Science & Reason on Facebook: tinyurl.com The Hidden Universe of the Spitzer Space Telescope (Episode 22): The Milky Way Big Picture (Showcase). Two and a half billion infrared pixels are exposing our own Galaxy in this new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope! This is the Hidden Universe of the Spitzer Space Telescope, exploring the mysteries of infrared astronomy with your host Dr. Robert Hurt. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — It’s the Milky Way as you’ve never seen it before! Two and a half billion infrared pixels are exposing our own Galaxy in this new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope! Science is all about getting the big picture, but some pictures are definitely bigger than others. You may have used your computer to make a large panorama yourself by stitching together a few shots from your camera. Depending on the camera the final picture may contain ten or twenty million pixels. Now can you imagine taking over 800000 images and combining them into a single two-and-a-half billion pixel image? Two teams of astronomers have not only imagined it… they’ve used NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to make one. And it’s online for everyone to explore. Over 50 astronomers have worked on this massive project since the Spitzer mission began. This image combines data from two different legacy projects known as GLIMPSE, headed up by Dr Ed Churchwell and MIPSGAL, led by Dr. Sean Carey …
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