A new survey, perhaps the largest of its type, shows the Milky Way's galactic plane in stunning detail.
This image shows just a tiny portion of a new survey of the Milky Way, conducted by the Dark Energy Camera in Chile, that revealed an incredible 3.32 billion objects. is populated by hundreds of billions of stars, huge numbers of star-birthing regions and massive clouds of gas and dust. Cataloging such objects is a massive task, but the team behind the new catalog — the second data release from the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey, known as DECaPS2 — was up to the challenge.
"One of the main reasons for the success of DECaPS2 is that we simply pointed at a region with an extraordinarily high density ofand were careful about identifying sources that appear nearly on top of each other," Andrew Saydjari, lead author of a study announcing the new results, said in the same statement, which was released by the NSF on Wednesday .
The majority of the stars and dust in the Milky Way are located in the galactic plane, which is seen as a bright band across the center of the newly released Dark Energy Camera images. While this preponderance of stars and glowing dust makes for spectacular photos, it can also make the galactic plane challenging to observe.
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