ID                   = IPAC/P/GLIMPSE360
publisher_did        = ivo://IPAC/P/GLIMPSE360
obs_collection       = GLIMPSE360
obs_title            = GLIMPSE360: Spitzer's Infrared Milky Way
obs_description      = This infrared view of the disk, or plane, of our Milky Way galaxy is assembled from more than 2 million snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The data were taken as part of a huge survey project called the Galactic Legacy Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire, or GLIMPSE360. Spitzer spent a total of 172 days taking the individual pictures, and this is the first time they have been stitched together into a single expansive view. The image covers about 3% of our sky, but because it focuses on a band of the sky that includes the plane of our galaxy, it shows more than half of the Milky Way's stars. The blue dots throughout the image are all individual stars, most of which are relatively close to us, while the blue haze towards the galactic center is also made up of starlight, too far away for us to pick out individual stars, but all contributing to the glow. The red structures are clouds of dust and gas that permeate our galaxy, and give birth to new stars. Throughout the image, you can see star birth in action, in brightly-lit regions; look closely and you'll also see bubbles, pillars and other shapes blown out and carved in the dust and gas by starlight and stellar winds. In many areas, dark filaments stand out sharply against the bright background. These dark tendrils are the thickest dust clouds in our galaxy, that not even Spitzer's infrared view can penetrate. The image combines data from multiple surveys: GLIMPSE, GLIMPSEII, GLIMPSE3D, Vela-Carina, GLIMPSE360, Deep GLIMPSE, CYGX, GALCEN, & SMOG. The 12-micron data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) was substituted for missing 8-micron data in outer galaxy regions mapped during Spitzer's post-cryo mission.
obs_ack              = From Spitzer public web site: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/info/18-Image-Use-Policy
obs_copyright        = Spitzer mission - JPL/NASA
client_category      = Image/Infrared/Spitzer
client_sort_key      = 04-03-0
hips_release_date    = 2013-11-29T17:38Z
hips_publisher       = IPAC
hips_version         = 1.2
hips_order           = 9
hips_frame           = equatorial
hips_tile_width      = 512
hips_tile_format     = jpeg
dataproduct_type     = image
dataproduct_subtype  = color
hips_glu_tag         = P-GLIMPSE360.hpx
moc_access_url       = http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360/aladin/data/Moc.fits
hips_service_url     = http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360/aladin/data
hips_status          = public master unclonable
hips_service_url_1   = http://alasky.u-strasbg.fr/IPAC/IPAC_P_GLIMPSE360
hips_status_1        = public mirror unclonable
client_application   = AladinLite
obs_regime           = Infrared
moc_type             = smoc
moc_sky_fraction     = 0.03121
moc_order            = 9
obs_initial_ra       = 81.38671875
obs_initial_dec      = 32.619842023764
obs_initial_fov      = 0.11451621372724685
TIMESTAMP            = 1582195653397