Nasa sky-map data's stellar spectacular

Awesome stuff, some of the most beautiful things you could ever see are out in space, new pictures are always exciting.



Here's the gallery, and this is the Multimedia gallery for you technical people, you can select an object, download it, and save it, of course you need to know where the object is (Right Ascension and Declination)and these are in different filters (red, blue,green,)you can view them combined or separately, but you can't view in the all four band mode, but hey it is good enough!

Walesonline.co.uk
Nasa has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with internet access to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects.

Many of the targets in the celestial catalogue released online this week have been previously observed, but there are significant new discoveries. The mission’s finds include more than 33,000 new asteroids floating between Mars and Jupiter and 20 comets.

Nasa launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which carried an infrared telescope, in December 2009 to scan the cosmos in finer detail than previous missions. The spacecraft, known as WISE, mapped the sky one and a half times during its 14-month mission, snapping more than 2.5 million images from its polar orbit.

The spacecraft’s ability to detect heat glow helps it find dusty, cold and distant objects that are often invisible to regular telescopes.

The batch of images made available represents a little over half of what has been observed in the all-sky survey. The full cosmic census is due for release next spring.