Starring role in producing galaxy image
EDINBURGH University has played a role in producing an image that shows more than one billion stars in the Milky Way together in detail for the first time.
Scientists created the colour picture by combining infra-red light images from telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Large structures of the Milky Way galaxy, such as gas and dust clouds where stars have formed and died, can be seen in the image.
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Hide AdThe picture represents part of a ten-year project involving scientists from the UK, Europe and Chile, who gathered data from the two telescopes.