Shades of Space

• Spectacular image of the Milky Way

• Combination Of X-Rays And Infrared Emission

• Original Silver Sparkling Through The Brilliant Color Application

 
This fascinating coin features a beautiful image of the Milky Way. As a special feature, this coin has a chromatic color application.
The print is directly on the silver surface without white printed basement. This gives the color a metallic effect.
In addition, some of the stars are omitted and so the proof-like silver surface shines through.
Combining data from three great NASA Observatories, we see from the space observatory Chandra the blue and violet X-rays, from Hubble the space telescope is yellow and from Spitzer another space telescope are the red data’s.
It is a unique collaboration of these three observations using infrared light and x-ray light to see through the dust revealing the intense activity near the galactic core.
Probably the most spectacular image of the Milky Way and was never seen like this on a coin before.

• 10th Anniversary of the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope

• Sparkling Silver Stars in the Motif and Chromonite Color Application

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope this Shades of Space Edition shows a beautiful picture taken by Fermi Gamma Ray.
Fermi Gamma Raywas launched on 2008 and is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit.