Last month, an atlas of some 5 million images from the celestial map known as the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) became available online (http://www.
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2MASS stands for Two Micron All-Sky Survey (astronomy)
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The Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) used a telescope and Arizona and another in Chile.
In spite of the limitations of ground-based observations, the most thorough all-sky infrared survey to date has been the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) that was conducted by the University of Massachusetts and the California Institute of Technology during 1997-2001.