The research instrument
worlds most powerful recorded this fabulous view of the sky in one shot. The
scene, looking near Sagittarius, covers an area of approximately 3 degrees of
curve or six times the diameter of the lunar disk.
The Lagoon Nebula (M8),
Trifid Nebula (M20) and NGC 6559 (pictured at right) are, respectively, in the
bottom of the scene, top right and bottom left. All of them are embedded in
dusty fields and filled with stars of the Milky Way center.
The color scheme used
shows starlight reddened by dust in red, while the emission of hydrogen atoms,
usually red, is shown in green.
Regarding the
observation instrument, it was built and is operated by the Project Pan-STARRS.
It consists of a telescope and a digital camera of 1.4 gigapixels (gigapixel
equals one billion pixels).
Pan-STARRS (Panoramic
Survey Telescope English and Rapid Response System, which could be translated
as panoramic survey telescope and rapid response system) explore the universe
with a very high resolution, combined with a very wide field of view.
The project's objective
is to observe the sky for comets and asteroids potentially hazardous to Earth.
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