The 2MASS Redshift Survey (details here) took 10 years to complete, and it has now yielded the finest 3D map of the universe ever made, cataloguing more than 43,000 galaxies within 380 million light-years from Earth. The new map was presented last week at the 218th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. You can view the map in a much bigger format here and, as one user suggests, you may want to “right click and save as desktop background.”
Space.com has more details on this incredible mapping project. Thanks Robin for sending along.
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Right click… save as desktop background.
Right click… save as desktop background.
Where is home ? :)
Amazing…
Incredible map of the universe.
whats the black un-mapped part O.O……
the black area appears to be our milky way and its disc blocking light from being picked up by the survey. from our point of view in the universe we are looking out of a galaxy. part of it obscures our vision.
Hi
43,000 galaxies if you compare it to the number of galaxies in the visible part of universe for us – around 25 billions and knowing it is only very small part of all – it is quite poor number. But very interesting map tho.
Saved as desktop background!