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2MASS Updates with 5 Million Pictures

Posted by michael on from the stellar-scrapbook dept.

B.E.M. writes "Science Daily mentions that the previously reported Two-Micron All Space Survey has updated again, this time with a total of 5 million pictures in its gallery."

5 comments

  1. Re:Pr0n by the_other_one · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's star porn not porn stars

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  2. Science in pictures, lots of pictures by sweetser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a cool project. It really is stunning: 5 million detailed pictures of the sky! I downloaded an image of the Tarantula nebula just so I could say I have one such image on my machine. In a way, that download does represent how this project is open to the public. Yet I don't think I want to crank through a terabyte of data on my 200mhz Linux box.

    It is this level of technical detail available to anyone that makes science such a unique activity.

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  3. Picture quality by jaxdahl · · Score: 1
    Is it just me, or is the general image quality pretty crappy, compared to what you might see from the Hubble telescope?

    Jupiter's moon, Io
    Uranus, Neptune, and moons
    A 'picture' they call a picture of Pluto I'd think the detail would be better with such a detailed survey of the sky.