through the looking glass

Looking out the window:

This panoramic view encompasses the entire sky as seen by Two Micron All-Sky Survey. The measured brightnesses of half a billion stars have been combined into colors representing three distinct wavelengths of infrared light. This image is centered on the core of our own Milky Way galaxy.

Hi Res Image: Here Source: Caltech


Looking inwards:



Record grooves (actually it's all one groove) under an electron microscope.

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