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A density map of part of the Milky Way disk; the axes show galactic latitude and longitude, coordinates that relate to the position of the centre of the Galaxy; the mapped data are the counts of stars detected in i, the longer wavelength broad band of the survey, down to a faint limit of 19th magnitude; although this is just a small section of the full map, it portrays in exquisite detail the complex patterns of obscuration due to interstellar dust. Image credit: Hywel Farnhill / University of Hertfordshire.

New Catalogue of Visible Milky Way Contains 219 Million Stars

Sep 16, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands have assembled a catalogue of the visible part of the northern...