Mysterious Strands in Milky Way’s Center by Spitzer and WISE
An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed nearly 1,000 mysterious strands, inexplicably dangling in space.
Photo history & details
The complete image was created by overlaying information from two other space telescopes: Spitzer and WISE.
To construct the image with unprecedented clarity and detail, astronomers spent three years surveying the sky and analyzing data at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO).
Using 200 hours on SARAO’s MeerKAT telescope, researchers pieced together a mosaic of 20 separate observations of different sections of the sky toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy, 25,000 light years from Earth.
Image credits: SARAO/MeerKAT, Spitzer Space Telescope, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Judy Schmidt, Adam Jesionkiewicz (Color Grading)
Credits: NASA
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