Photo captures 84 million stars in Milky Way

Astronomers have catalogued 84 millions stars at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy using a cosmic photo taken in Chile by a telescope. A view that has been the largest survey ever of the stars in our galaxy core.The telescope can zoom the image so large that it would measure 30 feet long by 23 feet tall if printed with resolution of a typical book.The image contains 10 times more stars than previous studies.Astronomers identify 173 million different objects in the 9-billion-pixels image, of which 84 million could be confirmed as stars, the rest were distat objects such as galaxies.

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