HTTP:: Second GigaGalaxy Zoom Image Available
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Scientists from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have recently revealed the second image of the Milky Way, taken as part of the ongoing GigaGalaxy Zoom project. The first image was released less than a week ago, as we were telling you at the time. While the last photo was an interactive map of the entire night sky, as viewed by amateur astronomers, the recent 34 by 20-degree wide view deals only with our galaxy's core. Like the one before it, it was taken by renowned astrophotographer Stephane Guisard, who is also an ESO engineer. The photograph was taken from the Cerro Paranal site, in the Atacama desert of northern Chile, where the VLT and the VLT Survey Telescope are located. It took 29 nights for Guisard to collect the over 1,200 photographs he needed to compile the new map. More than 200 hours of exposure were needed for the true-color, high-quality images to be obtained, an official press release on ESO's website shows. Because the!
expert is an optical engineer specializing in telescopes, he was the natural choice for leading the GigaGalaxy Zoom, as he is one of the few astrophotographers with such training in the world today. The new image shows the area of the sky between the constellations of Sagittarius (the Archer) and Scorpius (the Scorpion), and features the dust...
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