A new 3-D map of the universe provides the the biggest and most detailed view of...

A new 3-D map of the universe provides the the biggest and most detailed view of the night sky ever made, astronomers say.


Biggest 3-D Universe Map Created—See Fly-Through Video
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The crown jewel of the six-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS III), the map was created by targeting nearly a million galaxies up to 12 billion light-years from Earth—in part by using a spectrometer that can measure the distances to thousands of separate galaxies simultaneously.

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