The new Milky Way survey image 'is the largest such catalog ever from a single camera.'
A new "dark energy" camera in Chile captured a mind-bending image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new image reveals a massive three billion objects that were previously uncharted, according toThe image, taken by the Dark Energy Camera on the NSF's NOIRLab’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, is viewable online.
The impressive new image covers 13,000 times the area of the full moon viewed from Earth and contains an immense number of newly-discovered stars, nebulae, and other space objects. "We simply pointed at a region with an extraordinarily high density of stars and were careful about identifying sources that appear nearly on top of each other," explained Andrew Saydjari, a graduate student at Harvard University and lead author of. "Doing so allowed us to produce the largest such catalog ever from a single camera, in terms of the number of objects observed."
Astronomers have released a giant survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way with data taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by
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