Siena Galaxy Atlas helps categorize nearby galaxies

Thousands of colorful spirals, warm blobs and razor-thin ellipticals populate the National Science Foundation’s Noirlab atlas. The atlas, named the Siena Galaxy Atlas, uses the data from three Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Surveys taken between 2014 and 2017. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and Kitt Peak National Observatory collected data on the 383,620 nearby galaxyContinue reading “Siena Galaxy Atlas helps categorize nearby galaxies”
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