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Infrared

Two images of same region of our 'Milky Way', shown in Visible light spectrum and in Infrared

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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLvc0jH6jA

This video compares a visible light wide-field view (part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2) of the Milky Way’s central regions with a new near-infrared image taken with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The video starts by showing a visible light image of the Milky Way central regions, filled with vast numbers of stars. A moving slider then reveals that far more stars, hidden behind clouds of dust, are revealed when this region is observed in the near-infrared.

Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2 and ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al..

Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin and S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard).

• https://twitter.com/i/status/1730435610832150539

The Online Digitized Sky Surveys server at the ESO Archive provides access to the DSS1 and DSS2 surveys produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute through its Guide Star Survey group. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope.

• https://archive.eso.org/dss/dss

We are, our Solar System is, in the 'Milky Way' galaxy.... 'Milky Way' is a translation of the Latin via lactea, from the Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kýklos)

We are in a "milky circle"..... #Eco-on #PlanetCitizens