HD Picture: Hubble-Spitzer Color Mosaic of the Galactic Center

yeah back from holiday a while ago, just didnt feel like upping anything. have been down with fever etc... anway enjoy this rather new hubble pic ___________________________________________________________________________________ This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core. It offers a nearby laboratory for how massive stars form and influence their environment in the often violent nuclear regions of other galaxies. This view combines the sharp imaging of the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) with color imagery from a previous Spitzer Space Telescope survey done with its Infrared Astronomy Camera (IRAC). The Galactic core is obscured in visible light by intervening dust clouds, but infrared light penetrates the dust. The spatial resolution of NICMOS corresponds to 0.025 light-years at the distance of the galactic core of 26,000 light-years. Hubble reveals details in objects as small as 20 times the size of our own solar system. The NICMOS images were taken between February 22 and June 5, 2008. ___________________________________________________________________________________ About the Object Object Name: Galactic Center Object Description: Center of the Milky Way Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 45m 36s.00 Dec. -28° 55' 58".8 Constellation: Sagittarius Distance: 26,000 light-years (8 kiloparsecs) About the HST Data Data Description: This image was composited from Hubble and Spitzer data. ________________________The Hubble component was from the HST proposal 11120: Q.D. ________________________Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), S. Stolovy ________________________(Caltech), C. Lang (University of Iowa), A. Cotera (SETI ________________________Institute), M. Muno (Caltech), M. Morris (University of ________________________California, Los Angeles), D. Calzetti (University of ________________________Massachusetts, Amherst), S. Ramirez (Caltech), and G. ________________________Schneider (University of Arizona). Instrument: NICMOS Exposure Date(s): February 22 - June 5, 2008 About the Spitzer Data Science Team: The Spitzer Space Telescope data were courtesy of NASA, ________________________Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science ________________________Center/California Institute of Technology). Instrument: Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Wavelength: 3.6 microns (blue), 4.5 microns (green), 5.8 microns (orange), 8.0 microns (red) Exposure Date(s): September 3, 2004 and September 15, 2005 About the Release Release Credit: NASA,ESA,Q.D.Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and S. Stolovy (Caltech) Release Date: January 5, 2009 ___________________________________________________________________________________ please leave a comment if you want, this is just to show what is out there... And before you go and spam, dl it watch it and make up your own mind... cheers the_phyrexian Are you a British citizen? Click here! (Petition to stop Sharia Law) http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/shariastop there is a reseed section, read it / use it... http://suprbay.org/forumdisplay.php?f=35 or visit my blog... http://thephyrexian.tk

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irontowngeek (2009-01-09)

Thanks for sharing it,
It kind of sets off my System47 screen saver.
(S.T NexGen computer system on the Enterprize)
As far as spamming.
I do not think anyone here on the Bay,wants quality and worthy uploads,unless they are pictures of underage girls.
To each their own.

RyanTheAngryYoungMan (2012-03-27)

thanks man :)

stless60 (2012-10-03)

Thanks so much