Largest Picture of Milky Way Galaxy
Remember the last time you tried to assemble your family for a group photo and how hard it was to squeeze everyone into the frame? Now imagine trying to fit 200 billion stars into a single photo… stars that span 7,054,199,780,000,000 miles in space.
The imaging team from the Spitzer Space Telescope has unveiled the largest, highest resolution infrared picture ever taken of the Milky Way galaxy. The GLIMPSE (Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Extraordinaire) photo is 180 feet wide (55m) and is composed of 800,000 snapshots taken by Spitzer. This photographic survey has 100 times the sensitivity and over 10 times the resolution of previous surveys, allowing us to see stars and dusty objects throughout much of our galaxy for the first time.
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