Innovation

Scientists Are Making a 3-D Map of the Universe Going Back 11 Billion Years

DEEP SPACE

A telescope in Arizona will undertake the task after being retrofitted with a high-tech sensor.

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P. Marenfeld and NOAO/AURA/NSF

Nearly 500 scientists from 13 countries have come together in an ambitious new effort to map… well, pretty much everything.

As part of a $70 million program funded mostly by the U.S.

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