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Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths
- nicara 17y agoAnyone have any idea what those 'scars' are that are only visible in x-ray wavelengths? I'd try and find out myself, but I'm not qualified enough to even know where to start looking or what to look for. :/
- iamwil 17y agoTo me the Xray was the most surprising. Where's all that XRay come from? Is it like the microwave radiation where it's left over from the Big Bang? And like you said, where do the scars come from?
- joe_the_user 17y agoUh, the Xray's aren't microwaves from the big bang 'cause the microwaves are on the other, less energetic side of the spectrum. This does make me feel like a kid looking up into the night sky again.
- pmichaud 17y agoIt looks thet center on a bluish bluster in the bottom right of the initial screen. I don't know the answer though.
- rfreytag 17y agoThey may be unscanned regions.
- vickrum 17y agoFrom the video on their blog, about the x-ray stripes: "The black lines you can see across the image are where the satellite that took these data did not collect any information." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7-6fQ9_48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7-6fQ9_48 http://blog.chromoscope.net/ http://blog.chromoscope.net/
- whimsy 17y agoNo obligatory humor referencing H.P. Lovecraft's mythos? We're probably better off without, come to think of it. Good find; thanks for sharing.
- dmvaldman 17y agoWish this site used some silverlight sexiness for fast continuous zooming
- rbanffy 17y agoYet, I am glad I can use the site without downloading any plugins.
- rflrob 17y agoI have a reasonably fast connection, but the experience here is greatly improved by downloading all the datasets: http://blog.chromoscope.net/download/ http://blog.chromoscope.net/download/
- joe_the_user 17y agoIt's beautiful and awe-inspiring. But... if it is just an overlay of five static images, it makes me feel a little like I've been tricked.
- elblanco 17y agoAwesome....