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Astronomers Produce Largest 3D Catalog of Galaxies

A team of astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at the Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has produced the world’s largest three-dimensional astronomical imaging catalog of stars, galaxies, and quasars. The team used data from UH’s Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS1 (PS1), on Haleakalā. The PS1 3π survey is the world’s ...

Troy Oakes

Pan-STARRS1 survey.