Publish the most complete picture of the galaxy

The Adler, Chicago (USA) astronomical department recently published the latest and most complete picture of a galaxy of 800,000 images of different sizes.

The Adler, Chicago (USA) astronomical department recently published the latest and most complete picture of a galaxy of 800,000 images of different sizes.

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Partial photo.

These photos were observed and photographed by scientists with the Spitzer space telescope of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA).

Robert Hurth, a scientist at the Spitzer Science Center, Chicago Institute of Technology (USA), said the spatial coverage of the image is only as wide as an index finger, about the length of a hand span great.

The area of ​​this photo sounds very small, but in fact it covers half the galaxy.

According to Sean Caray of Spitzer Science Center, this is a picture of the highest resolution galaxy ever, as well as the infrared image with the largest area and the highest sensitivity.

It is expected that in the future this is still considered to be the most perfect picture of the galaxy.

Update 17 December 2018
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