NERSC Deep Sky (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

NERSC Deep Sky

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This image is a map of the sky as viewed from Palomar Observatory in California. Each color shows the number of times an area was observed, grey-white is about 30, blue is about 70, green is about 100, and red is about 200 observations. All of these images are stored in the NERSC archive, which contains approximately 11 million cosmic images taken over a period of 9 years.

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NERSC Deep Sky Project

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