{"id":1622,"date":"2012-03-29T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2012-03-29T19:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:37:26","slug":"the-milky-way-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/03\/29\/the-milky-way-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Milky Way in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are about one billion stars in there &#8211; this is more than has been in any other image produced by surveys<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Dr Nick Cross, University of Edinburgh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have created an interactive mosaic of our Milky Way galaxy that shows something like a billion stars. <\/p>\n<p>The project, which has been running for 10 years, combines data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukidss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">UKIDSS\/GPS<\/a> sky survey acquired by the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii with the <a href=\"http:\/\/mwm.astro.puc.cl\/mw\/index.php\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">VVV survey data<\/a> acquired by the Vista telescope in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers at  Edinburgh and Cambridge processed and compiled all the data used in the mosaic and have made it available to everyone around the world for study.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/djer.roe.ac.uk\/vsa\/vvv\/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta\/vvvgps5.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are about one billion stars in there &#8211; this is more than has been in any other image produced by surveys Dr Nick Cross, University of Edinburgh. Astronomers have created an interactive mosaic of our Milky Way galaxy that shows something like a billion stars. The project, which has been running for 10 years, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/03\/29\/the-milky-way-in-pictures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Milky Way in pictures<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}