Views From Space

unknownskywalker: A Royal Celebration This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA’s WISE space telescope. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this 1,000-square degree expanse. The bright stars of the constellations fade into obscurity amongst the backdrop of millions of other stars revealed by WISE. Cool clouds of dust that fill the space between the stars in the Milky Way glow in infrared light and tell us more about the story of how stars are born, and how they die. Within this image are dozens of nebulaes where new stars are forming, creating bubble like structures that can be dozens to hundreds of light-years in size. The process of star formation within these giant clouds has been likened to fireworks, celebrating the birth of new generations of stars. But the death of stars is also seen in the remnants of a supernova explosion that was witnessed by the astronomer Tycho Brahe in 1572 AD. This image is a mosaic of thousands of individual frames from WISE, combined first into 442 interlocking tiles before re-projecting and stitching them into the final picture. This was done for each of the four WISE wavelengths, totaling nearly 30 billion pixels in the interlocking tiles. Download the original full-size image: 6000×2177 px (23.17 MB) | View the annotated version. unknownskywalker: A Royal Celebration This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA’s WISE space telescope. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this 1,000-square degree expanse. The bright stars of the constellations fade into obscurity amongst the backdrop of millions of other stars revealed by WISE. Cool clouds of dust that fill the space between the stars in the Milky Way glow in infrared light and tell us more about the story of how stars are born, and how they die. Within this image are dozens of nebulaes where new stars are forming, creating bubble like structures that can be dozens to hundreds of light-years in size. The process of star formation within these giant clouds has been likened to fireworks, celebrating the birth of new generations of stars. But the death of stars is also seen in the remnants of a supernova explosion that was witnessed by the astronomer Tycho Brahe in 1572 AD. This image is a mosaic of thousands of individual frames from WISE, combined first into 442 interlocking tiles before re-projecting and stitching them into the final picture. This was done for each of the four WISE wavelengths, totaling nearly 30 billion pixels in the interlocking tiles. Download the original full-size image: 6000×2177 px (23.17 MB) | View the annotated version.

unknownskywalker:

A Royal Celebration

This enormous section of the Milky Way galaxy is a mosaic of images from NASA’s WISE space telescope. The constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus are featured in this 1,000-square degree expanse.

The bright stars of the constellations fade into obscurity amongst the backdrop of millions of other stars revealed by WISE. Cool clouds of dust that fill the space between the stars in the Milky Way glow in infrared light and tell us more about the story of how stars are born, and how they die.

Within this image are dozens of nebulaes where new stars are forming, creating bubble like structures that can be dozens to hundreds of light-years in size. The process of star formation within these giant clouds has been likened to fireworks, celebrating the birth of new generations of stars. But the death of stars is also seen in the remnants of a supernova explosion that was witnessed by the astronomer Tycho Brahe in 1572 AD.

This image is a mosaic of thousands of individual frames from WISE, combined first into 442 interlocking tiles before re-projecting and stitching them into the final picture. This was done for each of the four WISE wavelengths, totaling nearly 30 billion pixels in the interlocking tiles.

Download the original full-size image: 6000×2177 px (23.17 MB) | View the annotated version.

# space NASA WISE telescope Milky Way Casseopeia Cepheus constellations

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