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Each dot in the picture at top indicates the position of a galaxy.
<big>'''Starry Starry Sky'''</big>


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.  
'''Each dot''' in the picture above indicates the position of a galaxy.  


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


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/
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. -- https://www.sdss3.org/


* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy
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:<small>You are looking at over 140,000 points of light, every one a galaxy containing billions of stars, trillions of planets .... life, life origins...</small>
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Starry Starry Sky

Each dot in the picture above 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


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. -- https://www.sdss3.org/


1.2-million-galaxies-cross-section-e1468508533423.png


 


You are looking at over 140,000 points of light, every one a galaxy containing billions of stars, trillions of planets .... life, life origins...
Photo credit: Herschel Space Observatory / ESA - European Space Agency
Star Galaxies Revealed - Origins of Life Mission ESA-NASA.jpg

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