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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:58AM (#26077465)
As sega_sai said, there are patterns in the way the galaxies are distributed. Around every galaxy, there is a ring where there is a greater chance of finding another galaxy. It's called the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation, and measuring it is the reason we took these images in the first place! Measuring the size of that ring at different times in the past will hopefully help us figure out how dark energy behaves. See desi.lbl.gov, eg.
Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:40AM (#26077286)
A very bright star (well, you'd barely be able to see it with your own eyes in a very dark spot). Wreaks havoc on our detectors and data processing algorithms!
Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:37AM (#26077256)
According to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, it's a star of type M7III, so a red giant