{"id":27155,"date":"2016-12-20T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T08:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27155"},"modified":"2016-12-20T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T08:56:04","slug":"largest-digital-survey-of-the-sky-mapped-billions-of-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/20\/largest-digital-survey-of-the-sky-mapped-billions-of-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest digital survey of the sky mapped billions of stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Engadget<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

An international team of astronomers have released<\/a> two petabytes of data from the Pan-STARRS project<\/a> that’s also known as the “world’s largest digital sky survey.” Two petabytes of data, according to the team, is equivalent to any of the following: a billion selfies, one hundred Wikipedias or 40 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with single-spaced text. The scientists spent four years observing three-fourths of the night sky through their 1.8 meter telescope at Haleakala Observatories on Maui, Hawaii, scanning<\/a> three billion objects in the Milky Way 12 times in five different filters. Those objects included stars, galaxies, asteroids and other celestial bodies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow … this is mind blowing at the very least …<\/p>\n

See the image above? That’s the result of half a million 45-second exposures taken over four years. They’re releasing even more detailed images and data in 2017 — for now, you can check out what the team released to the public on the official Pan-STARRS<\/a> website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Engadget reports: An international team of astronomers have released two petabytes of data from the Pan-STARRS project that’s also known as the “world’s largest digital sky survey.” Two petabytes of data, according to the team, is equivalent to any of the following: a billion selfies, one hundred Wikipedias or 40 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled … Continue reading Largest digital survey of the sky mapped billions of stars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Largest digital survey of the sky mapped billions of stars #space #science #research","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1117,655,53],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-research","tag-science","tag-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t