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| Keywords: Galaxies of the Infrared Sky .jpg en This panoramic view of the entire sky reveals the distribution of galaxies beyond our Milky Way galaxy which astronomers call extended sources as observed by Two Micron All-Sky Survey The image is constructed from a database of over 1 6 million galaxies listed in the survey's Extended Source Catalog; more than half of the galaxies have never before been catalogued The image is a representation of the relative brightnesses of these million-plus galaxies all observed at a wavelength of 2 2 microns The brightest and nearest galaxies are represented in blue and the faintest most distant ones are in red This color scheme gives insights into the three dimensional large-scale structure of the nearby universe with the brightest closest clusters and superclusters showing up as the blue and bluish-white features The dark band in this image shows the area of the sky where our Milky Way galaxy blocks our view of distant objects which in this projection lies predominantly along the edges of the image 2003-04-13 http //www ipac caltech edu/2mass/gallery/showcase/allsky_gal_col/index html 2MASS/T H Jarrett J Carpenter R Hurt Copyright notice http //www ipac caltech edu/2mass/gallery/showcase/copyright html PD-USGov-NASA PD-author http //www ipac caltech edu/2mass/gallery/showcase/copyright html Atlas Image or Atlas Image mosaic obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey 2MASS a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation Uploaded with UploadWizard 2MASS images Large-scale structure of the cosmos Maps and diagrams of galaxies Maps with Mollweide projection Celestial maps | ||||
