The Milky Way Big Picture

[bryceguy72]

Great video and project.

Question: At 2:45 he talks about the wavelengths of blue, green, and red light being approximately 4, 8, and 24 microns.

Every scientific resource I've consulted says the range of visible light is 0.38 to 0.75 microns. So where did he get 4, 8, and 24 from? Those are not the wavelengths of blue, green, and red light.

[robotaholic]

thank you alot for putting this up

[2bsirius]

It is so heartening to see how creative this is. AND it's great that it's being done with legacy projects. Can't want to see it on the NASA site itself.

[BrunoTheQuestionable]

The zoomable image is at

w w w. spitzer. caltech. edu/Media/mediaimages/zooms/

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[ubuibiok]

*****

[HayaJi]

The image is mind-blowing - definitely recommend visiting the site :-)

[scottelane]

Wow. What a great learning tool for the public.