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“Galaxy quest illuminates dark corners of the universe”

It is the most detailed map of its kind ever created, showing 110,000 "nearby" galaxies, within 2 billion light years of our world, the Australian newspaper Sydney Morning Herald reports.

“Every dot is "another Milky Way, with billions of stars," said Heath Jones, the leader of a team of Australian astronomers that spent 10 years undertaking the survey in an effort to unravel one of modern astronomy's biggest mysteries,” according to the Australian newspaper.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/galaxy-quest-illuminates-dark-corners-of-the-universe-20090401-9jrc.html


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