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NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art

8:40AM August 19, 2010 | Clay Dillow - PopSci

We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope’s visualisation team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission’s reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye. More »

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The Universe Will Never Cease To Amaze Me

3:20AM August 6, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

This photo shows the Antennae galaxies, which started colliding 100 million years ago, creating million of stars in the process, which later exploded as supernovas. I really find it hard and sad to know that I’ll never see this live. More »

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Can You Count 400 Billion Stars In This Mind-Blowing Panorama?

3:40AM June 3, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Astronomers estimate that there are 200 to 400 billion stars in our galactic neighbourhood, the Milky Way. I guess that someone tried to count them in this fully-zoomable, ultra-high-definition 800,000-image mosaic and got tired around 296,351,284,702. More »

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World’s Largest Milky Way Image Is 37 Metres Of Humbling

3:00AM December 5, 2009 | Adam Frucci

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. More »

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Milky Way’s Heart Combines Three Space Telescope Views

2:50AM November 13, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

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. More »

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New Gigantic, Glowing Saturn Ring Discovered

2:12AM October 8, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

See that tiny dot in the middle of that ring? That’s Saturn. And the newly-discovered glowing ring is 13.4 million miles in diameter. The proverbial 360kg gorilla has been discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope, leaving every single astronomer speechless. More »