Category:Planetary Science

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Earth, Our Home Planet

Among the Stars, Galaxies, Planets and Mysteries of the Universe

1.2-million-galaxies-map-slice.jpg


1.2-million-galaxies-map-slice.jpg‎ (800 × 600 pixels, file size: 326 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Each dot in the picture at top indicates the position of a galaxy.

The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the universe 6 billion light-years wide (thus we see some of these galaxies 6 billion years into the past), 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick.

http://earthsky.org/space/1-2-million-galaxies-in-3d

July 2016 - The largest three-dimensional map of our universe so far. It’s a map of 1.2 million galaxies over a quarter of the sky and over a volume of space of 650 cubic billion light-years.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- https://www.sdss3.org/


http://en.es-static.us/upl/2016/07/1.2-million-galaxies-cross-section-e1468508533423.png


Hubble starsandstars.jpg

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