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Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Gargantuan Survey of the Milky Way

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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 Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Department of Energy, at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.

Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Gargantuan Survey of the Milky Way. The DECaPS2 survey, which took two years to complete and produced more than 10 terabytes of data from 21,400 individual

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