Pan-STARRS (IMAGE)

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Pan-STARRS

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For the Pan-STARRS large survey, a refrigerator-sized 1.4 billion-pixel camera -- the world's most powerful -- nightly snaps pictures of a swath of sky six times wider than the moon. Such expansive images capture a range of cosmic activity, from the Universe’s expansion to the savage interaction of stars and black holes. This image, just 1/100th of the Pan-STARRS camera’s field of view, shows three spiral galaxies, distant galaxy clusters (yellow), and stars in the Milky Way (blue-white and red).

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Pan-STARRS 1 Science Consortium (Color image prepared by Alisa Rachubo, Alex Damewood, and Michael Wood-Vasey)

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