Wednesday, 27 August 2008

The Milky Way


As seen by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, here is a rather nice composite of our own little galaxy.......A bright spot at the lower left is a blazar, a galactic nucleus where a supermassive black hole violently accelerates particles. The Crab Nebula, which hosts a spinning neutron star, appears as a bright spot on the right in the galactic plane. Most of the image is formed from cosmic radiation hitting clouds of gas in space.

3 comments:

Martin said...

Nice!

you're taking over my job here ;)

Mitmac said...

There's probably enough space to go round i think!

Anonymous said...

we can never have enough of these piccies...