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Jun. 03, 2011
Charting the Local Universe
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| Astronomers speaking at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society have released the most complete 3-D map of our local universe to date, charting the location of galaxies out to 380 million light-years away. Karen Masters of the University of Portsmouth describes the 2MASS Redshift Survey project and its goals. |
Produced by Charles Bergquist, Director and Contributing Producer
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Karen L. Masters
Astronomy researcher and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, UK
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