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| Keywords: Milky Way infrared.jpg en Original caption The Infrared Milky Way This Mollweide projection encompasses the entire sky as seen by Two Micron All-Sky Survey The measured brightnesses of half a billion stars points have been combined into colors representing three distinct wavelengths of infrared light blue at 1 2 microns green at 1 6 microns microns and red at 2 2 microns This image is centered on the core of our own Milky Way galaxy toward the constellation of Sagittarius The reddish stars seemingly hovering in the middle of the Milky Way's disc -- many of them never observed before -- trace the densest dust clouds in our galaxy The two faint smudges seen in the lower right quadrant are our neighboring galaxies the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds The images in this gallery are released into the public domain If any image or images are redisplayed or reproduced please accompany the image or images with the following acknowledgment 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 If pressed for space this acknowledgment could be shortened to e g Atlas Image or Atlas Image mosaic courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF However all or part of the full acknowledgment is preferred This is the stated policy of 2MASS 2MASS 2MASS images Aitoff allsky views Maps with Mollweide projection | ||||
