Keeping a steady hand when snapping panoramic pictures is a valuable
skill, but NASA's upstaged your photographic prowess with something a
tad more impressive. Using over 2 million infrared pictures shot with the
Spitzer Space Telescope
over the course of a decade, the agency's created what's being called
the clearest infrared panorama of our galaxy ever made. This is the
first time all photographs from a project dubbed the Galactic Legacy
Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (or GLIMPSE360) have been combined into a
single image. Although the final product only shows three percent of
the sky, it contains over half of all stars in the
Milky Way.
