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2MASS

The Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) was an astronomical survey of the whole sky in infrared light. It took place between 1997 and 2001, in two different locations: at the U.S. Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, and at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, each using a 1.3-meter telescope for the Northern and…

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Two Micron All-Sky Survey

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2MASS

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples18
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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related to Catalog · 10
2MASS → An, Avoidance, Cataloging, Detection, Infrared, Infrared Science Archive, J04414489, Milky Way, The, Zone
related to External links · 6
2MASS → All-Sky Release Database2MASS, Brown Dwarfs, IPAC2MASS Atlas Image Gallery, Miscellaneous ObjectsLow-Mass Stars, UMass, Wayback Machine
Alternative names · 1
2MASS → Two Micron All-Sky Survey
Website · 1
2MASS → www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/

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survey objects infrared stars catalog two galaxies million cataloged all-sky brown dwarfs star extended astronomical respectively 2masx planets ipac micron

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2MASSAlternative namesTwo Micron All-Sky Survey1.00infobox
2MASSWebsitewww.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/1.00infobox
2MASSrelated to CatalogThe0.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogInfrared Science Archive0.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogDetection0.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogZone0.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogAvoidance0.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogMilky Way0.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogJ044144890.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogAn0.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogCataloging0.60section
2MASSrelated to CatalogInfrared0.60section

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