COBE Photographs the Milky Way in Infrared
JUL 01, 1990
DOI: 10.1063/1.2810620
Would you believe that this is our own Milky Way? It is not an artist’s conception of what the Galaxy might look like to an outside observer, but rather a near‐infrared image of the inner reaches of the Milky Way, produced by the diffuse Infrared Background Experiment aboard the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. COBE has been in Earth orbit since November. (See
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