VIVAnews --have you ever imagine what that picture of the universe? This may be too complex. However, astronomers United Kingdom managed to make a breakthrough: map of the universe in three dimensions.
Are scientists from the University of Portsmouth, who made the map of 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) that covers a distance of 380 million light years, 45,000 Galaxy neighbor. To know the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy alone over 100,000 million light years.
This is the map of the universe of three dimensions to the most recent and complete--uncovering the latest details about our position in the universe.
"I spoke of the desire of all of us to understand our place in the universe," said Karen Masters from the University of Portsmouth, as FOXnewsloaded, may 25, 2011. But the job is still long. "I will not be excited if we do not have a complete map of the Earth. (Similarly with maps of the universe), it would be nice if we had complete. "
This latest map using data from the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) Redshift Survey (2MRS) which takes 10 years to scan the night sky, complete with near-infrared light. The survey uses two telescopes in Observatory Fred Lawrence Whipple, at Mount Hopkins, Arizona and Cerro Tololo inter-American Observatory in Chile.
The survey also mapped out in detail the areas that were previously hidden behind the Milky Way Galaxy to better understand the influence of their movement to other parts of the universe. (umi)
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