Multiwavelength Milky Way
This collage shows the Milky Way in 10 different wavelengths of light, from radio waves to gamma rays. By studying our galaxy in different types of light, astronomers can learn far more than they could otherwise.
Multiwavelength Milky Way
This collage shows the Milky Way in 10 different wavelengths of light, from radio waves to gamma rays. By studying our galaxy in different types of light, astronomers can learn far more than they could otherwise.
Milky Way Easter Eggs
This artist’s concept visualizes gamma-ray bubbles discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. From end to end, the bubbles extend 50,000 light-years, or roughly half of the Milky Way’s diameter. Hints of the bubbles’ edges were first observed in X-rays (blue) by ROSAT, a Germany-led mission operating in the 1990s. The gamma rays mapped by Fermi (magenta) extend much farther from the galaxy’s plane.
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