New images from the galaxy include 1 billion stars

New photographs, introduced March 28, include infrared images of the galaxy taken from surveying the sky from two different telescopes, the first being the infrared telescope of He is located in Hawaii and the second is the VISTA telescope located in Chile. This photo is part of a 10-year project that collects data, which is useful for future research as described by scientists.

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Nick Cross of the University of Edinburgh said in an article: 'Detailed images at this level give us a different perspective on the galaxy through a closer look. The fact that the information is processed, collected and published is made by a dedicated team of staff that can make it easier for other scientists to focus on the use of this data. In addition, this is also a cost-effective way to study astronomy. "

Cross exhibited pictures on Thursday (March 29) at the International Astronomy Conference 2012 held in Manchester, England. The photo shows the specific image of the galaxy, often described as two half-clad eggs with a flat plate in the middle. The Earth is located near the outer edge of this disk; According to the researchers, if viewed from our position, this disk is intersecting.

Because the image is taken from infrared light, it can penetrate most of the galaxy's dark dust cloud, allowing astronomers to observe details in the center of the galaxy. Large shell structures can also be seen from the image, such as large clouds of gas and gas where stars are formed at dizzying speeds.

While this photo captures a huge number of stars, it is not really a perfect picture of the galaxy's stars. Astronomers think our universe contains at least 100 billion stars and the largest is up to nearly 400 billion stars. Being able to capture all of this in a photo is still a problem without an answer.