The Largest Digital Survey Of The Visible Universe Is Now Publicly Available

Over the past four years, astronomers associated with the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) project at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa have repeatedly scanned three-quarters of the sky in visible and infrared light. Now, these images, which show up to 3 billion stars, galaxies and other celestial objects, are freely available for download -- if you have 2 petabytes of spare space, that is.