
Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this new all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions. The towers of fiery colors are actually dust in the galaxy and beyond that has been polarized.
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NASA ID
PIA18915
Date Created
February 5, 2015
Center
JPL
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image
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