THX for the ping.
What are your reactions to this?
Immediately striking are the streamers of cold dust reaching above and below the Milky Way. This galactic web is where new stars are being formed...IOW, we live in a swarm of crud.
Less spectacular but perhaps more intriguing is the mottled backdrop at the top and bottom. This is the 'cosmic microwave background radiation' (CMBR). It is the oldest light in the Universe, the remains of the fireball out of which our Universe sprang into existence 13.7 billion years ago.Hey, at least they put it in quotes. When I was a kid, it seemed as if every couple of years someone on grant money pointed a radiotelescope in several directions over the course of a few observation seasons and discovered CMBR.