Space Telescope Science Institute to Host Data from World's Largest Digital Sky Survey
Monday, December 19, 2016 - 09:31
in Astronomy & Space
Data from the world's largest digital sky survey, Pan-STARRS1, is being publicly released today by the Space Telescope Science Institute, in conjunction with the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. The four years of data comprise 3 billion separate sources, including stars, galaxies, and various other objects. The collection contains 2 petabytes of data, which is equivalent to one billion selfies, or 100 times the total content of Wikipedia.