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You’ve never seen the Milky Way quite like this.
A new panoramic view of our galaxy is the result of 2.5 million images captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope — and is the clearest video tour of the galaxy yet made. Just check it out above.
“If we actually printed this out, we’d need a billboard as big as the Rose Bowl Stadium to display it,” Robert Hurt, an imaging specialist at NASA’s Spitzer Space Science Center in Pasadena, Calif, said in a written statement. “Instead, we’ve created a digital viewer that anyone, even astronomers, can use.”

Our Milky Way
Mar 25, 2014 @ 13:46:48
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