Different views of the sky

Below is a view of the whole sky taken at various wavelengths. These maps were generated using SkyView. The maps are all in Galactic coordinates and displayed in a Hammer-Aitoff projection. Blue regions have the highest intensity and red regions the lowest.


The sky as seen by COBE-DIRBE.

The sky at 100 microns as seen by IRAS.

The sky at 408Mhz, from Halsam et al. (1982, A&AS 47,1).


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