360 Degrees of Milky Way at Your Fingertips

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A slice of the Milky Way in Scorpius and Sagittarius from the new zoomable Milky Way mosaic called GLIMPSE360. This is the first time that the more than 2 million Milky Way images from Spitzer have been stitched into one continuous panorama. Click to start zooming. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE team

Touring the Milky Way’s a blast with this brand new 360-degree interactive panorama. More than 2 million infrared photos taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope were jigsawed into a 20-gigapixel click-and-zoom mosaic that takes the viewer from tangled nebulae to stellar jets to blast bubbles around supergiant stars.  (…)
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