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October 30, 2015

VISTA discovers new component of Milky Way
Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 29, 2015
The Vista Variables in the Via Lactea Survey (VVV) [1] ESO public survey is using the VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory to take multiple images at different times of the central parts of the galaxy at infrared wavelengths [2]. It is discovering huge numbers of new objects, including variable stars, clusters and exploding stars (eso1101, eso1128 and eso1141 ). A team of astronomers, led by Istvan Dekany of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, has now used data from this survey, ta ... read more

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