Posted on Sep 29, 2024
1.5 billion cosmic objects dazzle in the largest infrared Milky Way map ever created
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Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have released the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy ever compiled. Completed after more than 13 years of monitoring using the ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the group’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, the project adds up to 500 terabytes of data containing over 1.5 billion cosmic objects. Taken as a whole, the mapping is the largest survey of its kind to employ an ESO telescope.
1.5 billion cosmic objects dazzle in the largest infrared Milky Way map ever created
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Some days, our technology is amazing. The photographs are the proof of that. Even in the void of space, there is such beauty.
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Our biggest problem is we can make the map we just can't create what is in the map.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Actually, thank goodness for that. I can just imagine the mess we'd make SPC Maurice Evans
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