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HTTP:: Third and Final ESO Milky Way Map Released
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has finally released its third and final map of the Milky Way, as part of the GigaGalaxy Zoom project. The last image completes the first two nicely, and provides would-be explorers and astronomers with the necessary tools they need to understand which cosmic bodies are which in the night sky. All the pictures that were included in the new panorama were taken with an amateur telescope, and look precisely as the sky is seen with the unaided eye from one of the most suitable places for astronomical observations in the world, the La Silla Observatory, in Chile. The main instrument used for the panorama was the Wide Field Imager, attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the site. The newly imaged structure is the Lagoon Nebula, which was captured in a 370-million-pixel photo that can be used by professional and amateur astronomers alike, in their quest to understanding the Universe. The third installment of the project covers an ar!
ea eight times larger than that of the full Moon, as seen on the night sky â€" an area roughly equivalent to one and a half square degrees. The structure is about 4,000 to 5,000 light-years away, in the constellation of Sagittarius. “The GigaGalaxy Zoom project’s dedicated website has proved very successful, drawing hundred...
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