Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths

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58 points·michael_nielsen··12 comments

Anyone 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. :/

To 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?

Uh, 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.

It looks thet center on a bluish bluster in the bottom right of the initial screen. I don't know the answer though.

They may be unscanned regions.

From 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://blog.chromoscope.net/

No obligatory humor referencing H.P. Lovecraft's mythos?

We're probably better off without, come to think of it. Good find; thanks for sharing.

I have a reasonably fast connection, but the experience here is greatly improved by downloading all the datasets: http://blog.chromoscope.net/download/

Awesome....

It'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.

Wish this site used some silverlight sexiness for fast continuous zooming

Yet, I am glad I can use the site without downloading any plugins.

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