Harvard postdoctoral fellow Samuel Arbesman has created this beautiful subway map of our home galaxy, based on the original modern subway map – Harry beck’s London tube. Can you spot the Sun? Zoom in.
The world’s largest picture of the Milky Way was unveiled today in Chicago, taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, measuring a whopping 120 feet across.
I’ve seen many amazing, inspiring and humbling deep-space images, but this look inside the heart of our very own galaxy has left me without superlatives. Zoom in to get the 2820×1409 pixel image, and see how it was made.
