HII Region Discovery Survey
January 14, 2013
The red areas mark locations of a string of newly-discovered HII regions stretching across a portion of the MIlky Way with the Green Bank and Arecibo radio telescopes.
CREDIT: HRDS Survey Team, NRAO/AUI/NSF (radio); Axel Mellinger (optical)
Topics:
Radio telescopes, Astronomy, National Science Foundation, Environment, Science and technology in the United States, University of Virginia, Telescope, Space, H II region, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Arecibo Observatory, SETI
