DESI’s three-dimensional “CT scan” of the Universe
DESI’s three-dimensional “CT scan” of the Universe. The Earth is in the lower left, looking out in the directions of the constellations Virgo, Serpens and Hercules to distances beyond 5 billion light-years. As this video progresses, the vantage point sweeps through 20 degrees towards the constellations Bootes and Corona Borealis. Each colored point represents a galaxy, which in turn is composed of 100 billion to 1 trillion stars. Gravity has clustered the galaxies into structures called the “cosmic web”, with dense clusters, filaments and voids.
Credit:D. Schlegel/Berkeley Lab using data from DESI
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Id: | noirlab2203a |
Release date: | Jan. 13, 2022, 9 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2203 |
Duration: | 16 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |
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