An international team of scientists used more than 500 hours of observations with the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to produce detailed sets of images of 34 galaxies at distances from 6 to 50 million light-years from Earth. Their project, called The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey, or THINGS, required two years to produce nearly one TeraByte of data. HI ("H-one") is an astronomical term for atomic hydrogen gas. The astronomers presented their initial findings to the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) meeting in Austin, Texas.

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Some very good (artificial colour) images there of galaxies. However we are still looking at objects so large that our solar system by comparison would be around the size of an atom so still not really detailed.

A problem even in Tombaugh's day was that they were producing more data than there was people to look at it. I wonder what amazing discoveries might even now reside in the "pending" list of material to look at, which may not be looked at for another decade as ever more data stacks up?