Tag: Milky Way

Gorgeous Milky Way Image from the European Southern Observatory

Gorgeous Milky Way Image from the European Southern Observatory

Innerspace is happy to resume its traditional nod to “Science Friday” and end the work week with stunning images from the European Southern Observatory. Sometimes nothing fuels the passion to get on with the exploration of space than to take a moment and contemplate just how beautiful it can be. From the ESO: A spectacular […]

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Nature.com unveils new research (and a map) revealing our place in the universe. They call it Laniakea, which means “immeasurable heaven” in Hawaiian. Video helps.  

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Simply Amazing Image : 84 Million Stars

Simply Amazing Image : 84 Million Stars

From the European Southern Observatory: Using a whopping nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way. This gigantic dataset contains more than ten times more stars than previous studies […]

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