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'We have changed the view of our galaxy forever': Astronomers capture most detailed ever infrared map of the Milky Way

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Astronomers have created the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way.

It contains more than 1.5 billion objects.

The map was made using 13 years of observations across 420 nights .

It was stitched together from 200,000 images captured by the European Southern Observatory's telescope in Chile .