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Credit & Copyright: 2MASS,
T. H. Jarrett, J. Carpenter, & R. Hurt
Explanation:
What does the universe nearby look like?
This plot shows over one and a half million of the brightest stars
and galaxies in the nearby universe detected by the
Two Micron All Sky Survey
(2MASS) in infrared
light.
The resulting image is an
incredible tapestry of stars and galaxies that
provides limits
on how the universe formed and evolved.
Across the center are stars that lie in the
plane of our own
Milky Way Galaxy.
Away from the Galactic plane, vast majority of the dots are
galaxies, color
coded to indicate distance, with blue dots representing the nearest
galaxies in the
2Mass survey,
and red dots indicating the most distant survey galaxies that lie at a
redshift near 0.1.
Named structures
are annotated.
Many galaxies are
gravitationally bound together to form
clusters,
which themselves are loosely bound into
superclusters, which in turn are sometimes seen to
align over even larger scale structures.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: galaxies - universe
Publications with words: galaxies - universe
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- APOD: 2025 August 28 B Galaxies, Stars, and Dust
- APOD: 2025 March 2 B The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound
- APOD: 2024 December 31 B The Twisted Disk of NGC 4753
- APOD: 2024 December 18 B NGC 660: Polar Ring Galaxy
- APOD: 2024 December 1 B Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe
- APOD: 2024 October 20 B Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe
- Stellar Streams in the Local Universe