A new image of a huge area of the Milky Way shows over three billion stars, clouds of gas and dust, and regions where stars are born, writes CNN. It is probably the largest collection of celestial bodies from our galaxy ever caught on camera. It still only covers 6.5 percent of the starry sky, according to Fox Weather. For two years, the Dark Energy Camera has been collecting data, as part of the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey. In this context, “survey” is a process of taking a picture of a larger area of the sky, not just one specific celestial body. Here they have zoomed in on a small part of the Milky Way, only a tiny extract of the gigantic image. Photo: DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRL / NOIRLa The camera is located on the four-meter high Víctor M. Blanco telescope, at the National Science Foundation Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. “This is quite a technical feat. Imagine a group picture of over three billion people where you can recognize every single individual,” says Debra Fischer, a director at the National Science Foundation. are the ones who operate the camera. – Astronomers will scrutinize this detailed portrait of more than three billion stars in the Milky Way for decades to come, she says. On this page, you can also zoom in closely on each pixel. And if you need a break from everyday life , put on a headset, bring this up to full screen, and take a minute to reflect a little on how unbelievably huge our universe is.
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