
The composite image was stitched together from three separate images captured by some of astronomy's most advanced tools: a near-infrared image from Hubble, an infrared image from Spitzer and an X-ray view from the Chandra Observatory. Each of these images is itself a composite, a mosaic of sweeping surveys of the galaxy beyond our solar system.
The result: a view of the Milky Way from an amazing perspective that includes vibrant regions of star birth, the supermassive black hole that hubs our galaxy and hazy blue X-ray light from super-hot gasses leftover from stellar explosions. Makes you feel kind of small, doesn't it?
Check out the annotated version below, or click here to download your own hi-res images.

[Hubble]
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Seems pretty dumb to have a key on the picture... considering that its a 2-d image of space? Or maybe its just me....
Seems pretty dumb to have a key on the picture... considering that its a 2-d image of space? Or maybe its just me....
from coral gables, fl
Lol yeah and that little compass... which way is north? If I follow that line straight will I hit the north pole?
Where's Sha Ka Ri?
Ba dum psh.
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