3 Telescopes Combine for Stunning Milky Way Photo


	3 Telescopes Combine for Stunning Milky Way Photo

tabsey

11-12-2009 7:50 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6720426f-8497-4861-81cd-44bcac52bd56/43F40066-798A-4066-99AC-6CC971BACCF1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091110-hubble-spitzer-chandra-milkyway.html" href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091110-hubble-spitzer-chandra-milkyway.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091110-hubble-spitzer-chandra-milkyway.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/555F3C1C-B1EE-4607-8F28-C53BA981150C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091110-hubble-spitzer-chandra-milkyway.html"><P class="MsoNormal">A giant composite image of the Milky Way's center has been
taken by NASA's three Great Observatories — the Hubble and Spitzer Space
Telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091110-hubble-spitzer-chandra-milkyway.html"><P class="MsoNormal">The image, unveiled by NASA today, was made to celebrate the
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the heavens.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091110-hubble-spitzer-chandra-milkyway.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="center" class="sbcell"><A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=091110-milky-way-center-02.jpg&cap=In+this+spectacular+image%2C+observations+using+infrared+light+and+X-ray+light+see+through+the+obscuring+dust+and+reveal+the+intense+activity+near+the+galactic+core+of+the+Milky+Way.+The+image+combines+pictures+from+the+Hubble+Space+Telescope%2C+Spitzer+Space+Telescope+and+Chandra+X-ray+Observatory.+Credit:+NASA%2C+ESA%2C+SSC%2C+CXC%2C+and+STScI"><IMG border="0" src="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/091110-milky-way-center-00.jpg" /></A>
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