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What is the primary purpose of the 2MASS catalog?

  1. To provide accurate positions and magnitudes of stars in the Milky Way.
  2. To identify and characterize infrared sources in the sky.
  3. To measure the distances to nearby galaxies.
  4. To study the properties of active galactic nuclei.