New Sky Survey Released

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C Send message Joined: 22 Nov 07 Posts: 36 Credit: 1,224,316 RAC: 0	Message 1038 - Posted: 13 Dec 2007, 17:28:25 UTC Nathan: Just announced: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/12/milky-way-map.html?dcitc=w19-506-ak-0008 Do you think this will be of use to MilkyWay@home? C Team MacNN ID: 1038 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Rapture Send message Joined: 8 Nov 07 Posts: 12 Credit: 141,182 RAC: 0	Message 1043 - Posted: 13 Dec 2007, 21:46:03 UTC - in response to Message 1038. Do you think this will be of use to MilkyWay@home? I have read the article. This is a very important milestone in our understanding of the Milky Way Galaxy. Any new information about our own galaxy will be of tremendous help for this project! There is no limit to what this project can pursue because the possibilities are endless. Ideally, I would like to see a complete 3-D picture of the Milky Way Galaxy with all of its estimated 200 billion stars! ID: 1043 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Odysseus Send message Joined: 10 Nov 07 Posts: 95 Credit: 8,505,902 RAC: 3,142	Message 1044 - Posted: 13 Dec 2007, 22:36:40 UTC - in response to Message 1043. Ideally, I would like to see a complete 3-D picture of the Milky Way Galaxy with all of its estimated 200 billion stars! It’s far from complete, to say the least, but the Atlas of the Universe is one of my favourite sites for visualizing where things are in the Galaxy. There’s also a nice little cross-platform application by Bill Tschumy called “Where is M13?”—free for downloading from Think Astronomy. ID: 1044 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote