Surfing about, looking for some interesting astronomy-related websites, I just came acrtoss Chromoscope.
The name doesn’t suggest a lot, but it’s a tool that anyone can use to explore and understand the sky at multiple wavelengths.
The site was created using public-domain datasets from a number of all-sky astronomy projects. It lets you easily move around the sky and fade between wavelengths using a simple user-interface to illustrate the similarities and differences between what is visible at each wavelength.
There are currently seven datasets included: gamma ray (Fermi), X-ray (ROSAT), H-alpha (WHAM), optical (DSS), infrared (IRAS), microwave (Planck) and radio (Haslam).
A standard, modern, web browser is all that you need to use Chromoscope so there is no need to install any extra software, plugins or learn a new interface. Being platform independent means that whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux, it will still be accessible.
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