#2: Telescope captures image of 84 million stars

Dec. 26, 2012

The VISTA infrared survey telescope at the European Southern Observatory's site in Chile enabled an international team of astronomers to create a monumental 108,200 x 81,500-pixel color image, one of the biggest astronomical images ever produced, revealing ancient stars at the center of the Milky Way.

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