Thursday, October 25, 2012

multiply by ten

The VISTA survey team over at ESO has created a new stellar catalog that has over 84 million stars. Just in the central part of the Milky Way galaxy. This represents an order of magnitude increase over previous studies.


If you're inclined, you can "go deep" by viewing the 9 gigapixel (yes, gigapixel) image...

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