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This New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1 Billion Galaxies – kottke.org
After 1405 nights of observation over 6 years, astronomers at three observatories have produced an image of the night sky that c
It’s the result of the DESI Legacy Imagining Surveys, maps of the sky made by the three observatories (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey, in combination with the orbiting WISE infrared observatory). They mapped the northern sky in seven colors, covering a third of the entire sky — 14,000 square degrees, or the equivalent area of 70,000 full Moons on the sky.
The ultimate goal is to better understand dark energy, the mysterious…
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