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A Map of the Universe, 10 Years In the Making

Posted by timothy on from the so-it's-gotta-be-good dept.

gabbo529 writes "Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have created a map of the universe called the 2MASS Redshift Survey. The astronomers put in 10 laborious years in creating the map and it is what they call the most complete 3-D map of the local universe (out to a distance of 380 million light-years) ever created. 2MASS Redshift Survey extends closer to the Galactic plane than any other map of the universe before it; the region is generally obscured by dust."

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  1. So... by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    What you're saying is its ten years out of date?

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