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Digital Universe Guide - Hayden Planetarium

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4.3. EXTRAGALACTIC DATA GROUPS 171<br />

4.3.3 Visible All-Sky Survey<br />

Group Name mwVis<br />

Reference Axel Mellinger (Universitaet Potsdam)<br />

Prepared by Ryan Wyatt (AMNH/<strong>Hayden</strong>)<br />

Labels No<br />

Files mw-visible.speck<br />

Dependencies mellinger-optmw.sgi<br />

Wavelength 400 nm − 700 nm<br />

Frequency 750,000 GHz − 430,000 GHz<br />

The visible Milky Way shows the Milky Way Galaxy from Earth’s perspective, our night-sky view. This<br />

all-sky image shows the gas and dust visible to us from our own Galaxy.<br />

Because we cover this image in greater detail in the Milky Way Atlas, we will forgo discussing it here.<br />

Instead, we will refer you to “Visible All-Sky Survey” for a thorough description of the image.<br />

Like the objects in the Milky Way Atlas, the all-sky images in the Extragalactic Atlas are placed at a<br />

fixed distance. Of course, the Extragalactic Atlas’s megaparsec scale is much larger than that of the<br />

Milky Way Atlas’s parsec scale. You may recall in the Milky Way Atlas that the visible all-sky image is<br />

placed at an arbitrary distance of 1,000 parsecs (or 3,260 light-years). In the Extragalactic Atlas, we<br />

place the all-sky image on a sphere with a radius of 1 Mpc, or 3.26 million light-years. This distance<br />

corresponds with that of the stars group, constel group, and the coordinate spheres.

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