Data cubes and catalogs

The team has created something called the "Public Source Catalog 2" (HPSC2)... it's like a huge phonebook with information about every single galaxy they found.

Technical definition

A collection of organized datasets, in the form of 3D data cubes or other data structures, used for storing and analyzing multi-dimensional observational data, typically linked to additional metadata and reference catalogues.

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