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Dean Murray

Astronomers Create Most Detailed Infrared Map Of Milky Way

At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational project ever carried out with an ESO telescope. ESO/VVVX  SURVEY VIA SWNS.

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed ever made.

The team monitored the central regions of our galaxy over more than 13 years using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA telescope.

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