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Thursday, 14 August 2014

Hydrogen clouds in the Milky Way



I just discovered the VLA Galactic Plane Survey - oodles of high resolution hydrogen data to play with. I can probably get this looking nicer with some tweaking.
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  1. Fred Beckhusen15 August 2014 at 03:13

    Do something with Sag A*! Has the be some plasma there to work with.

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