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BEIJING – According to the Qinghai station of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese astronomers have completed about 71.4% of a large project to paint a picture of the vast galaxy of the Milky Way.
Lu Dengrong, a chief engineer at the station, said it would take four to five years to carry out the entire project, called "Milky Slider", launched since 2011.
According to Chinese astronomers, the Milky Way image slider project aims to discover the distribution, structure and physical properties of molecular clouds in order to obtain a relatively complete picture of the structure of the Milky Way.
"The project will change our knowledge of the galaxy," said Lu.
The observation of the galaxy was carried out using a telescope 13.7 meters in diameter in a desert at 3200 meters altitude in Qinghai Province, in the northwestern China.
It is the largest millimeter-wave radio telescope in China, providing data for a series of important astronomical studies, and it is open to astronomers around the world.
The telescope is mainly used for the study of molecular clouds and star formation, as well as the planetary nebula and the evolution of stars and transient stars.
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