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“NASA recently unveiled a new atlas and catalogue of the entire infrared sky, which includes more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. It is comprised of more than 2.7 million images taken at four infrared wavelengths of light, capturing everything from nearby asteroids to distant galaxies.”

Hick, Melanie. “The Whole Universe In One Photo”. The Huffington Post. 4 Mar. 2012.

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 on board the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. Editing: Michael König.

Featured music:

Jelinek, Jan. “Do Dekor”. Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records. Efa Imports, 2001.

The dominant rayed crater in the upper portion of the image is Debussy, according to NASA. The smaller crater, Matabei, with its dark rays, is visible to the west of Debussy. The bottom portion of the full image is near Mercury’s south pole and includes a region of Mercury’s surface not previously seen by spacecraft.