{"id":210364,"date":"2023-01-23T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=267777"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:07:36","slug":"new-10-terabyte-image-of-our-galaxy-reveals-more-than-three-billion-new-celestial-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/new-10-terabyte-image-of-our-galaxy-reveals-more-than-three-billion-new-celestial-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"The new 10 terabyte image of our galaxy reveals more than three billion new celestial objects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The space, last frontier. If you have ever wanted to see our galaxy with the highest definition possible, you are in luck. A new state-of-the-art camera installed in Chile has created a spectacular image of the Milky Way, thus revealing more than three billion celestial objects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weighing in at (attention) 10 terabytes, the gigantic image covers a space equivalent to 13,000 times the surface of the Moon<\/strong>, showing a myriad of elements, such as nebulae, stars and dark clouds of dust and gas. It was created by blending a total of 21,400 individual photographs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A feat of spatial mapping<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The image, which can be seen online through this link<\/a><\/strong> (with lower resolution), was captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam)<\/strong> of the V\u00edctor M Telescope. Target (4 meters high) at the NOIRLab<\/a> <\/strong>of the National Science Foundation (NSF), located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory<\/strong> (Chile).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is quite a technical feat<\/strong>. Imagine a group photo of over three billion people and each individual being recognizable”said Debra Fischer<\/strong>, director of the NSF’s Division of Astronomical Sciences. Astronomers will study this detailed portrait of more than three billion stars in the Milky Way for decades”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This achievement has been achieved by observing at near-infrared wavelengths<\/strong>, which allows astronomers to see the smallest or most distant stars, as well as being able to see through the countless dust clouds in outer space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We simply targeted a region with an extraordinarily high density of stars and were careful to identify sources that appear almost on top of each other”, explains Andrew Saydjari<\/strong>, a researcher at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian and lead author of the article published<\/a> in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition, the image obtained is being combined with other telescopes dedicated to mapping space, such as PanSTARRS 1<\/strong>, to obtain a 360\u00ba panoramic view of the Milky Way disk<\/strong>. “With this new survey we can map the three-dimensional structure of the stars and dust of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail”, says Edward Schlafly<\/strong>, a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute and co-author of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dark Energy Camera of the Inter-American Observatory of Cerro Tololo has created an image that reveals billions of celestial objects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":210365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[3744],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-210364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t