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more about #spitzer Margatron: Forget computer desktops, when is this going to be available as real wallpaper? My apartment needs some galaxy sprucing up! more » Gann: "It covers an area of the sky about as wide as a pointer finger and as long as the length of arms outstretched" But at what distance? If I hold my f... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Impressive image however it's far too deep for my limited intellect to grasp & comprehend. This is pretty much the only Milky Way I can wrap my head ... more » Curves: Seems as if the Giz editors are having a private contest to see who can post the most WOW pic of the week. They compete and we win. Stunning. more » TonyWonder: full resolution can be found here.... now give me a star frucci [www.spitzer.caltech.edu] more » Gordonium: Keep it up, NASA. You're inching your way to a Total Perspective Vortex. Also, I'm pretty sure our 156-billion-light-year-wide universe is laughing a... more » elementary: From the article, it's "120 feet (37 meters) long, 3 feet (1 meter) tall at its sides and 6 feet (2 meters) tall in the middle, where our galaxy's cen... more » Hearthatvoiceagain: If this thing is a 360 degree view, we need to find a circular room of a little over 38 foot diameter to display it properly. Maybe something can be a... more » TechWiz80: At one point I thought the stars spelled out "Puny Earthlings" but then I realized that was a smudge on my monitor...d'oh more » comrade_leviathan: Speak for yourself, Frucci. Knowing all of the true mysteries of the universe is only a matter of time... and I fully intend to live forever. more » Digo: Can I get that in the original resolution? I need a new background for my new 120ft monitor. more » RedEyeNinja: I nominate this as a "bleek of the week" photo! more » CircuitMage: The meaning , of Life.... #milkywaycenter more » Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: You know, NASA could make some serious cash selling these panoramic views of the galaxy as art prints. #milkywaycenter more » bleek: Happy birthday Astronomy :D #milkywaycenter more » cwebster88: I thought saturn went out of business...HA more » Greg Edwards: Boy, Saturn has really let herself go. more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: And that's only the second circle of Saturn hell... more » taodude: Giz has two completely different "red ring" stories today. more » RainyDayInterns: This is PRECISELY why we are putting together a portable Hyperstar CCD imaging setup for our own deep-sky astrophotography projects this Winter! I gu... more » -
#space
World's Largest Milky Way Image Is 120 Feet of Humbling
The world's largest picture of the Milky Way was unveiled today in Chicago, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, measuring a whopping 120 feet across. More » -
#space
Stunning Milky Way's Heart Image Combines Three Space Telescope Views In One
I've seen many amazing, inspiring, and humbling deep space images, but this look inside the heart of our very own galaxy has left me without superlatives. Zoom in to get the 2820x1409 pixel image, and see how it was made. More » -
#astronomy
New Gigantic, Glowing Saturn Ring Discovered
See that tiny dot in the middle of that ring? That's Saturn. And the newly-discovered glowing ring is 13.4 million miles in diameter. The proverbial 800-pound gorilla has been discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope, leaving every single astronomer speechless. More »
