At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational project ever carried out with an ESO telescope. Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than ...

ESO/VVVX survey The full dataset is available on the ESO website, where you can scroll around and zoom in on an incredible map of the galaxy. Some of the objects you can observe include newborn ...

The published images are just snapshots of a wider map containing more than 1.5billion cosmic objects. That is roughly 10 times more celestial articles than the ESO's previous map published in 2012.

The images were captured with ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) and its infrared camera VIRCAM. The gigantic map to which these images belong contains 1.5 billion ...