AAS : The infrared sky.
I like the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT); they do amazing work and have been doing so for 25 years. However, they’ve just released one of the most stunning data sets I’ve seen for a long time – the first release from their deep infrared survey, UKIDSS. This is the deepest and largest infrared survey ever made, the result of work that’s been going on since 2005. Sadly I missed the press conference as I was working on my talk, but luckily, Pamela has the full story here. And if you’re more a pictures than a words person, I recommend you jump straight into the site here and explore the gallery. The images are great, but my favourite UKIRT image is still the one below – the Chicken nebula.
Update Stuart reminds me that there’s an amazing Zoomable image from the part of the survey that looks along the plane of the Milky Way.
on January 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Hi Chris,
The links don’t work :(…
on January 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
The link to the UKIDSS gallery is http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/wsa/gallery/
on January 10th, 2008 at 11:25 am
[...] As I warned just before Xmas in this post, the first world release of UKIDSS has now gone public, with a press release at the AAS. The blogosphere is picking it up, here, here and here. You have no idea how nice it feels after a couple of weeks of STFC-cuts politics.. This has been my baby since 1998 … but others have done much more work than me. Thanks especially Steve Warren and Nige Hambly. Steve doesn’t seem to have a home page. This isn’t him. [...]