silver-fusion t1_j5ucw22 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 5:06 PM

Reply to comment by Wagamaga in Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Gargantuan Survey of the Milky Way. The DECaPS2 survey, which took two years to complete and produced more than 10 terabytes of data from 21,400 individual exposures, identified approximately 3.32 billion objects by Wagamaga

Thanks for sharing. The image link is here: https://www.legacysurvey.org/viewer-dev?ra=195.1948&dec=-62.1975&layer=decaps2&zoom=4

It's difficult to find the words to describe the scale. Even at the most zoomed in there are a hundred stars on my monitor. When I zoom out its a banana of endless stars. And it's just a fraction of our own average sized galaxy. And for every star in our galaxy there is a galaxy in the universe with its own set of stars.

coffeecake504 t1_j5udlqb wrote on January 25, 2023 at 5:10 PM

A banana of endless stars :,)