GLIMPSE360 (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

GLIMPSE360

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More than 2 million images like this one have been stitched together by Wisconsin astronomers to make a 360-degree portrait of the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way. In this image, the billowing pink clouds are massive stellar nurseries. The stringy green filaments are the blown out remnants of a star that exploded in a supernova.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wisconsin-Madison

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