Wednesday, June 08, 2011

The Most Complete Map of the Universe

Just because I like these things. Last week The Atlantic wrote The Most Complete Map of the Universe "A team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has rendered a 3-D image of the cosmos out to a distance of 380 million light-years away. This is the biggest thing you're going to look at a picture of today. The map, known as the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS), depicts 95 percent of the night sky and is said to be the most complete local map of the universe ever created. "

Universe map copy

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