File:Gargantuan Astronomical Data Tapestry of the Milky Way (noirlab2301b).tiff
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DescriptionGargantuan Astronomical Data Tapestry of the Milky Way (noirlab2301b).tiff |
English: Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab. For reference, a low-resolution image of the DECaPS2 data is overlaid on an image showing the full sky. The callout box is a full-resolution view of a small portion of the DECaPS2 data. |
Date | 18 January 2023 (upload date) |
Source | Gargantuan Astronomical Data Tapestry of the Milky Way |
Author | DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/E. Slawik Image processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) |
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