Milky Way image is a galactic-sized group portrait of three billion stars

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Scanning the Southern Hemisphere’s sky for two years, a dark-energy camera in Chile has made one of the most detailed surveys of the heavens to date

The plane of the Milky Way galaxy, shown in detail at top and in full at bottom, was captured by the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab in one of the biggest-ever surveys of the night sky.A galactic photo shoot has captured more than three billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest sky surveys ever.

Shown in remarkable detail, most of these Milky Way objects are stars. The count also includes small, distant galaxies that may have been mistaken as individual stars. “Despite many hours of staring at images containing tens of thousands of stars, I am not sure my mind has wrapped around the magnitude of these numbers,” Saydjari said in an email.

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