ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way CompletedPress Release ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed 24 February 2016 A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to mark the completion of the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). The APEX telescope in Chile has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere at submillimetre wavelengths — between infrared light and radio waves.
