ESO Telescope Captures the Most Detailed Infrared Map Ever of Our Milky Way

October 1st, 2024

Via: European Southern Observatory:

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ? the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational project ever carried out with an ESO telescope.

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