Gargantuan Astronomical Data Tapestry of the Milky Way
Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.
The survey is here reproduced in 4000-pixels resolution to be accessible on smaller devices.
Credit:
DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Image processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
About the Image
Id: | noirlab2301a |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | Jan. 18, 2023, 2 p.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2301 |
Size: | 4000 x 611 px |
About the Object
Image Formats
Large JPEG
1.3 MB
Publication TIFF 4K
6.9 MB
Publication JPEG
1.3 MB
Screensize JPEG
89.9 KB
Wallpapers
1024x768
364.5 KB
1280x1024
523.0 KB
1600x1200
704.0 KB
1920x1200
844.7 KB
2048x1536
3.2 MB
Colors & filters
Band | Wave-length | Tele-scope |
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Optical g | 473 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |
Optical r | 642 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |
Optical i | 784 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |
Infrared Y | 1.009 μm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |
Optical z | 926 nm | Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam |