NASA's Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips

[Baclava]

20 Gpixel interactive images of the Milky Way....zoom & scroll

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360


"When you look up at the Milky Way on a clear, dark night, you'll see a band of bright stars arching overhead. This is the plane of our flat spiral galaxy, within which our solar system lies.

A new, zoomable panorama from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows us our galaxy's plane all the way around us in infrared light. The 360-degree mosaic comes primarily from the GLIMPSE360 project, which stands for Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire. It consists of more than 2 million snapshots taken in infrared light over 10 years, beginning in 2003 when Spitzer launched."

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well, I think it's pretty cool

[question everything]

1. Am still hoping for funds to return to NASA

Especially now that the Chinese went to the moon and the Russians are literally holding the lives of our astronauts in the International Space Station in their hands.

And get another boost to technology research. The Cold War was behind many of the inventions of the 60s and 70s.