84 Million Stars and Counting: VISTA creates largest ever catalogue of centre of our galaxy
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have created a catalog of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way. This gigantic dataset contains more than ten times more stars than previous studies and is a major step forward for the understanding of our home galaxy. The image is so large that, if printed with the resolution of a typical book, it would be 9 meters long and 7 meters tall.