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A trillion-plus pixels. Three-dimensional. Full color. Covering more than a quarter of the sky — including a quarter billion galaxies.
It's the largest map of the universe to date.
Having analyzed it, researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University's Shirley Ho have gained new knowledge about how the universe is expanding and how much dark energy exists in it.
This video shows the positions of the 900,000 luminous galaxies used in these studies.
Each green dot represents one galaxy. The image covers a redshift range from 0.25 to 0.75, reaching to six billion years ago. The rotation of the image provides a view that shows what the distribution would look like from all sides.
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