Don't look up: Interactive atlas allows us to explore the universe in amazing detail
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Subject: Don't look up: Interactive atlas allows us to explore the universe in amazing detail Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:27 pm
Call it a symptom of our modern age. Thanks to a new sky atlas developed by Australian astronomers, we can now look to the skies without ever glancing away from our screens.
Using more than 70,000 ultra-high-resolution images painstakingly shot over 15 months, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the southern sky ever made – and from Thursday it's available to the public.