The enthusiastic collaboration among the wider community of 17th Century astronomers, across nations and continents, continuing to exchange astronomicalobservations even when their countries were at war with one another, is in stark contrast to Flamsteed's relentless withholding.
The work, which is described in the journal Nature, actually draws on observations made by several astronomical facilities, including the Keck and James Clerk Maxwell telescopes in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around the Earth.