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Covering 95 percent of the sky, this new infrared map is the most detailed ever assembled of galaxies in the local universe. Purple dots denote the closest galaxies and red the farthest, lying about 1 billion light-years from Earth. Credit: Tom Jarrett/IPAC/Caltech and the 2MASS Redshift Survey team

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  • Is that available as a rotating 3D visualization?
    Ralph Dratman Ralph Dratman
    May. 26, 2011 at 12:58am
  • Where is the "You are Here" arrow?
    E Volver E Volver
    May. 26, 2011 at 1:12pm
  • E Volver, I'm pretty sure we're dead center, which just proves that we ARE at the center of the known universe!
    Dr. Momus A. Morgus Dr. Momus A. Morgus
    May. 26, 2011 at 5:19pm
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