Astronomers just released a massive survey on the Milky Way's cosmic plane. A massive survey on the Milky Way's cosmic plane has been released by astronomers.
A galactic photo shoot has captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest sky surveys ever. A dark-energy camera on a telescope in Chile made the observations over two years, focusing on the Southern Hemisphere sky. Results were released this week. Most of these Milky Way objects are stars, shown in stunning detail. The count also includes small, distant galaxies that may have been mistaken as individual stars. With hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, scientists expect the cosmic catalog to grow.
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