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A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...
Take this stunning new map, put together by astronomers at Johns Hopkins University, that displays the entire known universe in all its glory, showcasing some 200,000 galaxies as tiny dots that ...
On February 1, a team of astronomers and cosmologists published the first data from the eROSITA sky survey.The data includes a cosmic map of half of the universe that was taken in X-ray light. ...
Spanning approximately 1.3 billion light-years—over 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way—it may be the longest known structure in the universe, surpassing previous record-holders like the ...
At last, the map ends at 13.7 billion light years away, where the light has been stretched by the expansion of the Universe and arrives at us as radiowaves. It is known as the Cosmic Microwave ...
Around 27 percent of the known universe is thought to be comprised of dark matter, and 68 percent is dark energy, while only about 5 percent is made up of "normal" matter.
Depicting a section of the universe known as the COSMOS-Web field, the new map is far more expansive than even the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a view of 10,000 galaxies NASA released in 2004.
By surveying the known universe in near-infrared light, SPHEREx should help astronomers solve some of the oldest astronomical mysteries. Although these colors aren’t visible to the human eye ...
The standard cosmological model known as Lambda-CDM (ΛCDM) proposes that dark energy is a constant force in the universe. However, an early “hint” in a new detailed map from the Dark Energy ...
Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest-scale structure in the known universe — a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years ...
A more detailed picture of Earth’s place in the universe could help us better understand the diverse objects that make up the known universe. 500,000 new stars and cluster cores ...