Sunday, June 5, 2011

Charting the Local Universe

Astronomers speaking at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society have released the most complete 3-D map of our local universe to date, charting the location of galaxies out to 380 million light-years away. Karen Masters of the University of Portsmouth describes the 2MASS Redshift Survey project and its goals.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/03/136925549/charting-the-local-universe?ft=1&f=1007

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