Thursday, December 13, 2007

Largest Ever Digital Survey of the Milky Way Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 12, @04:36PM
from the playing-nice-gets-you-places dept.
Space Graphics
Several readers have written to tell us that an international team of over fifty astronomers from around the globe have created the largest ever digital survey of the Milky Way. IPHAS (INT/WFC Photometric H-alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane) is an image survey designed to show large-scale structure within our galaxy. IPHAS data is being released by utilizing technology from the UK government funded open source project Astrogrid. Some of the images are quite spectacular.
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