Billions of stars and galaxies have been mapped as part of the most ambitious effort yet to map the visible universe. The universe is constantly changing, but the Pan-STARRS map now shows the average position, brightness and colour of 3 billion objects in space. The map contains more than 3 billion separate space objects. It shows our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in a level of detail never achieved before, says Hans-Walter Rix, director of the Galaxies and Cosmology department of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany. "The survey provides, for the first time, a deep and global view of a significant fraction of the Milky Way plane and disk – an area usually avoided by surveys given
World's largest digital sky survey includes 3 billion objects
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5-year, 2-petabyte digital survey of the night sky is the largest ever released
