A Flight Through the Universe, by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Published by BerkeleyLab at 08/08/2012 15:07

This animated flight through the universe was made by Miguel Aragon of Johns Hopkins University with Mark Subbarao of the Adler Planetarium and Alex Szalay of Johns Hopkins. There are close to 400,000 galaxies in the animation, with images of the actual galaxies in these positions (or in some cases their near cousins in type) derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7. Vast as this slice of the universe seems, its most distant reach is to redshift 0.1, corresponding to roughly 1.3 billion light years from Earth. SDSS Data Release 9 from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), led by Berkeley Lab scientists, includes spectroscopic data for well over half a million galaxies at redshifts up to 0.8 -- roughly 7 billion light years distant -- and over a hundred thousand quasars to redshift 3.0 and beyond.

For more information about BOSS and the latest data release, go to http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/08/08/boss-sdss-dr9/.

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Latest comments

Malay Soni, at 04/04/2013 02:58, says:
and at that speed, physics says u can see actually isnt it ??
dnavarro37, at 03/26/2013 21:51, says:
Wow, this is insane.. o-o
blacksoilder10, at 03/22/2013 02:29, says:
That is One Quadrillion times the speed of light, or 378 Sextillion miles per hour
SiSTiCkA, at 02/10/2013 18:09, says:
Diameter of Milky Way is actually 100-120kly, so your estimate should be cca 3 times higher. That means the camera is moving at 120mly per second.
meshlife88, at 01/23/2013 17:47, says:
This does not need music. This requires only that you observe in silent awe.
cufi cafir, at 01/22/2013 22:45, says:
Palestrina - Surge, illuminare
TheFestivelights, at 01/10/2013 13:32, says:
I think I have the math right, correct me if I'm wrong. This reconstruction shows 400,000 galaxies, but that is only 1/ 500,000 of the known Universe that is thought to contain some 200 billion galaxies. Way beyond mind-boggling.
nil1230, at 01/07/2013 20:05, says:
sloan should make another video like zooming out of the earth, galaxies, galaxy cluster.etc.
mutalix, at 12/15/2012 23:16, says:
No words can explain the feeling I get watching this. All of which I know, experience and feel , is challenged by this video.
chasbanner, at 12/11/2012 23:13, says:
It's big
JImmy4336, at 12/01/2012 18:24, says:
I had to play music while matching this. It's much better that way.
rafik Avetisyan, at 08/09/2012 16:45, says:
I can see my house from here!!
Simon Christensen, at 08/09/2012 16:19, says:
It's space, no sound!
Jason Moultrie, at 08/09/2012 16:19, says:
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE :D
Tyler Elwell, at 08/09/2012 16:49, says:
actually the diameter of the milky way is 100k light years so multiple that estimate by 2.5
Val Berger, at 08/09/2012 16:00, says:
Polynomial-C by Aphex Twin :)
kenny travers, at 08/09/2012 16:29, says:
ERMEGHERD
theMuss95, at 08/09/2012 16:22, says:
WOW I never thought that 3D version of the universe would be even more ******** like that.
o0OMadMikeO0o, at 08/09/2012 16:18, says:
You, sir, deserve a medal!
hajkie, at 08/09/2012 16:57, says:
Yea, there isn't proof, and we can't claim that there is life out there. But we can say the possibility, seeing as how many planets are in the habitat range of their stars even in close vicinty of our own star system, then, the possibility of there being intelligent life is damn high.
vlad0otiose, at 08/09/2012 16:29, says:
all this fuck made up of atoms :-/ ..
Andrew Wiseman, at 08/09/2012 16:24, says:
so what's the alternative?
kaiban42, at 08/09/2012 16:17, says:
looks like driving in the snow at night....
scsitransfer, at 08/09/2012 16:58, says:
Too bad they all live too far away for us to interact.