Week in Geek – Science like a BOSS
This is one slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the Universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Each dot in this picture indicates the position of a galaxy 6 billion years into the past. Credit: Daniel Eisenstein and the SDSS-III collaboration
My weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show.
Week in Geek: Science like a BOSS edition
Astronomers have made the largest and best map yet of the large-scale structure of our universe: a map of 1.2 million galaxies that sheds some light on the mystery of dark energy.
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