{"id":114097,"date":"2020-10-09T19:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T02:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/astronomers-produce-largest-3d-catalog-of-galaxies"},"modified":"2020-10-09T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T02:23:46","slug":"astronomers-produce-largest-3d-catalog-of-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/astronomers-produce-largest-3d-catalog-of-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers produce largest 3D catalog of galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-produce-largest-3d-catalog-of-galaxies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has produced the world\u2019s largest three-dimensional astronomical imaging catalog of stars, galaxies and quasars. The team used data from UH\u2019s Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System or Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) on Haleakal\u0101. The PS1 3\u03c0 survey is the world\u2019s largest deep multi-color optical survey, spanning three-quarters of the sky. IfA astronomers applied novel computational tools to the catalog, to decipher which of the 3 billion objects are stars, galaxies or quasars. For the galaxies, the software also derived estimates of their distances.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting 3D catalog is now available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.stsci.edu\/hlsp\/ps1-strm\/\">high-level science product through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes<\/a>. It is approximately 300 GB in size, and science users can query the catalog through the MAST CasJobs SQL interface, or download the entire collection as a computer-readable table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has produced the world\u2019s largest three-dimensional astronomical imaging catalog of stars, galaxies and quasars. The team used data from UH\u2019s Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System or Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) on Haleakal\u0101. The PS1 3\u03c0 survey is the world\u2019s largest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}