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Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way

Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way

Update: 2014-03-20

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Welcome home! This is our Milky Way galaxy as you’ve never seen it before. Ten years in the making, this is the clearest infrared panorama of our galactic home ever made, courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way

Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way

NASA's Spitzer Science Center / IPAC / NASA / Caltech