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World’s largest digital sky survey
February 3 , 2019
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- The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in US in partnership with the University of Hawai’s Institute for Astronomy released the second edition of data from Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System), the world’s largest digital sky survey.
- Pan-STARRS observatory consists of a 1.8-meter telescope equipped with a 1.4-billion-pixel digital camera.
- This was the first survey to observe the entire sky visible from Hawai.
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