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A billion galaxies lurk in a 10 trillion pixel map of the sky – SYFY WIRE
The sky is big. If you want to map it in detail, you have to think big, too. Astronomers are good at that. A massive international team has just released a sky…
The sky is big. If you want to map it in detail, you have to think big, too.
Astronomers are good at that. A massive international team has just released a sky survey so huge that I’m having a hard time grasping it.
The map is the culmination of six years with 1405 nights of observations, three telescopes (and one space telescope), and one supercomputer cranking away at the data because the survey has a total of 10 trillion pixels, and makes up a petabyte of data a thousand terabytes, or a million…
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