Scientists unveil world’s largest 3D map


After five years of looking into the deepest reaches of space, researchers have released what they call the “largest three-dimensional map of the universe.” No, you can’t see your house.

The mind-blowing map is the result of an ongoing project called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), an ambitious international search to map the expansion of the observable universe and hopefully solve some cosmic puzzles in the process. With this latest update, the project has mapped and measured more than 2 million galaxies, from our Milky Way galaxy to ancient objects more than 11 billion light-years away.