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ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way

epa11625780 A handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on 26 September 2024 shows a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars, the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light (issued 26 September 2024). Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects - the most detailed one ever made, a press releases by the ESO states. Using the European Southern Observatory?s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational project ever carried out with an ESO telescope. EPA/ESO/VVVX survey HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

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