Check out the night sky in all its X-ray glory: Everything from hot gases to supernovas and massive black holes

Astronomers have mapped the hot gas floating in our Milky Way for the first time – and identified more than a million X-ray-emitting objects in the universe – by piecing together images snapped by the eROSITA telescope. “This all-sky image completely changes the way we look at the energetic universe,” said Peter Predehl, the …

[Xiox]

Labelled image

Here's a nice labelled version of the image: http://www.mpe.mpg.de/7464825/erass1_annotated-1592554887.png

[Stumpy]

"My God! It's full of stars!"

Absolutely beautiful image.

[Pascal Monett]

My new laptop background

[ThatOne]

Just beware of the radiation.

[Tom 7]

Na thats just background radiation!

[Michael H.F. Wilkinson]

That is awesome

The universe is not the peaceful place we might think it is when looking up at the night sky (if it isn't cloudy (again), that is)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: That is awesome

Forget the Iraq War, this is what Shock and Awe truly means.

Go boffins.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: That is awesome

Oh, it is. Talk about social distancing, you can go for light years without meeting anybody.

[Francis Boyle]

It should be in 3D

There's very few things I'd get the goggles out for but this would be one of them.

[Ben Trabetere]

I wonder what sharp turn religion would have taken if the ancients could have seen this for just one day each decade. Would that one-eyed skull thing with the over-sized grin be the face of God? Wars would be fought, that's for certain.

[ThatOne]

Re: If you do a giant print of that...

More like pre-antique art in this case...

[adam 40]

Erotisa

Is it just me... my brain keeps auto-correcting