'Galactic Panorama' of Milky Way Details 3.3 Billion Celestial Objects - The Wall Street Journal

Astronomers person identified 3.32 cardinal celestial objects successful the Milky Way successful unprecedented detail.

The galactic panorama of stars, gas, particulate and a supermassive achromatic spread known arsenic Sagittarius A* was captured by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Dark Energy Camera connected a 4-meter telescope. It’s housed astatine the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory successful bluish Chile, which sits astatine an altitude of 7,200 feet, allowing for 1 of the clearest views of the nighttime sky.