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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

Our view of the universe keeps getting bigger, richer, deeper.

The latest sky survey from DESI (an experiment studying dark energy) covers 4 billion celestial objects & contains 5.6 trillion pixels. And it's open to anyone, if you want to take a look.

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2620/?lang #space #science #nature #tech

A group of galaxies nicknamed the Copeland Septet, in the constellation of Leo. Astronomers using images from Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have created the largest ever map of the sky, comprising over a billion galaxies. The final data release from the  ambitious DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys sets the stage for a ground-breaking 5-year survey with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which aims to provide new insights into the nature of dark energy. Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys/LBNL/DOE & KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA