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    What you're saying is its ten years out of date?

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  2. Re:So...not ten years out of date by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The map is not ten years out of date.

    It is 380 million years out of date, in places.

    Instead, it took ten years to find out how out of date it really was.

  3. Re:Asshats. Where's the 3D? by PvtVoid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you go. Dipshit.

  4. Re:Why is the equator empty? by pherth · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is the "shadow" of our own galaxy. This map plots objects which are far out of our own galaxy. If we look into directions where there are a lot of stars in our galaxy, the chance to detect outer-galaxy objects is small as they are behind our starts.

  5. You know its big when . . . by Punko · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know the universe is large, when things out to 380 LY away are referred to as "local"

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