This is basically the coolest picture I’ve ever seen of outer space. The disk and ball in the middle is the Milky Way, and all of the stuff around it is the 1.5 million galaxies closest to us. The colors correspond to the distance (because the infrared image picks up the red-shift phenomenon), blue being the closest and red being the furthest. This was taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite, operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of California, Los Angeles.

This is basically the coolest picture I’ve ever seen of outer space. The disk and ball in the middle is the Milky Way, and all of the stuff around it is the 1.5 million galaxies closest to us. The colors correspond to the distance (because the infrared image picks up the red-shift phenomenon), blue being the closest and red being the furthest. This was taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite, operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of California, Los Angeles.