You are looking at more than 84 million superstar , the largest ever catalogue of the centre of our extragalactic nebula , the Milky Way . Astronomers at the Paranal Observatory in Cerro Paranal , Chile , stitched the 9 gigapixels of the original image from 1000 of individual infrared pictures . you may see thefull , zoomable edition here .
It contains more than 10 meter as many star as previous catalogues and should facilitate uranologist teach more about the central bump of star at the pith of theMilky Way . Plotting the colour of each headliner against its brightness allows astronomers to create a nose count of stars , revealing more about the social structure and content of our astronomic substance .
The squad have already tell apart a large number of wispy red nanus stars , which areknown to be a well place to look for exoplanets .
figure by Ignacio Toledo / ESO / VVV Consortium
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