What is this exactly? I have seen this universe image a lot and never understood what it actually issubatomicslim OP t1_jcvueve wrote
Im trying to find similar images online, i have seen this in many youtube videos but I really cannot find anything close to this so there must be a certain name or something for images of the universe like this? With like a 3d 3 way intersection
s1ngular1ty2 t1_jd37zrr wrote
It's a 3D image of the stars/galaxies we have mapped from Earth. You are seeing it from the side. It's from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXpHiCNsKU
We can't map the entire sky from Earth because the Milky Way is in the way. It limits the angles we can look. That is why there is a big blank area in the middle.
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