ATLASGAL Image of the Milky Way

Close look at the ATLASGAL image of the plane of the Milky Way Credit: ESO, APEX, ATLASGAL consortium, NASA, GLIMPSE consortium, ESA, Planck. Music: Johan B. Monell This video takes a close look at a new image of the Milky Way released to mark the completion of the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). The APEX telescope in Chile has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere for the first time at submillimetre wavelengths