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Showing posts with label Giant eye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giant eye. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2012

"Giant eye" for studying the Milky Way


Mission Gaia - a unique space observatory of the European Space Agency, which will make the survey of billions of stars, the Milky Way, built-in digital camera with a resolution of 1 billion pixels. This "giant eye" explores the galaxy and makes a detailed map of the distribution of stars in it.