Milky Way image reveals detail of a billion stars

Too bad that the autors claim all the glory and that only a handfull of them do include their co-workers on their project merits.No one but no-one should ever claim a report or a discovery as being their own for it is all the merit of the collaborator's that is all too often being mis-appropriated by the lone signature and is that because I am an astronomer and I know a lot morew than youdo_puzzle.
Jacques

Hopefully, there won't be any "more-equal, less-equal" arguments. As long as some are willing to mill the wheat so that the Simon Cowell's can make their technicolor Parisienne baguettes........ And then to "equate" the situation to economic wisdom, is effectively saying that as long as there are those to make the books, there will be those to read them, and make sense of them, for the rest of us. Why aren't the processors and archivists and publishers able to "use" the data themselves? Isn't that how the WISE and Kepler, et al., data are treated? Overall, I think Cross' view is a bit like playing "Where's Waldo" with the accomplishment of the surveys, and somewhat diminishes the contributions of the "other" scientists involved in the surveys. I do believe that the astronomers involved in the tedium of sky surveys already realize that they, personally, will never be able to view all the data gathered. Their kicks are had by the discoveries of other astronomers from the harvest. A bit like the tribe surviving the winter based on your personal farming prowess; feels pretty good. So, instead of pointing out the economic benefits of the corroboration to which he is intrinsically second-party, Mr. Cross should be thanking the predecessor astronomers for their wisdom of foresight to embark on such sky surveys, despite their tedium and immensity. It is a blessing of the greatest serendipity that processing power has come into existence in the nick of time to accommodate this influx of discovery data in the recent two decades. Maybe he should, also, thank Bill Gates and the Jobs Estate.