File:Galaxies of the Infrared Sky .jpg
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English: This panoramic view of the entire sky reveals the distribution of galaxies beyond our Milky Way galaxy, which astronomers call extended sources, as observed by Two Micron All-Sky Survey. The image is constructed from a database of over 1.6 million galaxies listed in the survey's Extended Source Catalog; more than half of the galaxies have never before been catalogued. The image is a representation of the relative brightnesses of these million-plus galaxies, all observed at a wavelength of 2.2 microns. The brightest and nearest galaxies are represented in blue, and the faintest, most distant ones are in red. This color scheme gives insights into the three dimensional large-scale structure of the nearby universe with the brightest, closest clusters and superclusters showing up as the blue and bluish-white features. The dark band in this image shows the area of the sky where our Milky Way galaxy blocks our view of distant objects, which, in this projection, lies predominantly along the edges of the image. |
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Source | http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/showcase/allsky_gal_col/index.html |
Author | 2MASS/T. H. Jarrett, J. Carpenter, & R. Hurt |
Copyright notice: http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/showcase/copyright.html
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This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Atlas Image (or Atlas Image mosaic) obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: Atlas Image (or Atlas Image mosaic) obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
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Author | Two Micron All Sky Survey |
Online copyright statement | http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/ |
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Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 100 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 100 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 7.0 |
File change date and time | 15:07, 25 April 2003 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Copyright status | Copyright status not set |
IIM version | 2 |