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Re:Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths by nicara on Sunday December 06, 2009 @01:17PM (#979903)
Anyone have any idea what those 'scars' are that are only visible in x-ray wavelengths? I'd try and find out myself, but I'm not qualified enough to even know where to start looking or what to look for. :/
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Re:Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths by vickrum on Sunday December 06, 2009 @04:47PM (#980205)
From the video on their blog, about the x-ray stripes: "The black lines you can see across the image are where the satellite that took these data did not collect any information." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7-6fQ9_48 http://blog.chromoscope.net/
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Re:Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths by whimsy on Monday December 07, 2009 @04:41PM (#982235)
No obligatory humor referencing H.P. Lovecraft's mythos?

We're probably better off without, come to think of it. Good find; thanks for sharing.

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Re:Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths by iamwil on Sunday December 06, 2009 @01:36PM (#979931)
To me the Xray was the most surprising. Where's all that XRay come from? Is it like the microwave radiation where it's left over from the Big Bang? And like you said, where do the scars come from?
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Re:Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths by joe_the_user on Sunday December 06, 2009 @09:18PM (#980559)
Uh, the Xray's aren't microwaves from the big bang 'cause the microwaves are on the other, less energetic side of the spectrum.

This does make me feel like a kid looking up into the night sky again.

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Re:Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths by pmichaud on Sunday December 06, 2009 @01:39PM (#979934)
It looks thet center on a bluish bluster in the bottom right of the initial screen. I don't know the answer though.
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Re:Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths by rfreytag on Sunday December 06, 2009 @02:05PM (#979973)
They may be unscanned regions.
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