Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.

Thursday, 16 October 2014

EVERYBODY LOOK AT THE PRETTY HYDROGEN


All-sky neutral atomic hydrogen data from the LAB survey, rendered on a globe. Different colours represent different velocity channels. It's all Milky Way gas, just as slightly different velocities from frame to frame.

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