Astronomers from Johns Hopkins University have created an interactive map of the universe that allows you to look at more than 200,000 galaxies. The map, which can be found on its own website, is one of the first times the public has had access to such a body of data. This data was previously available only to scientists.
You can view the map of the Universe at MapoftheUniverse.net. The interactive map was created based on data collected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey program over more than two decades.
To demonstrate the scale of the map, Johns Hopkins University posted a video on YouTube. It zooms in on the central part of the map, showing spiral, elliptical, and redshifted elliptical galaxies that have been discovered over the past few decades.
Using the interactive map of the universe, you can see galaxies all the way to the edge of known space. Of course, this is not necessarily the edge of the universe itself. This is only the end of the human observable universe.
Having an interactive map of the universe at hand is great not only because we can see the number of galaxies that fill our universe, but also because it shows it all to scale.
Space telescopes like the James Webb also continue to reveal new mysteries about these galaxies, and it’s possible that more galaxies will need to be added to this map in the future.
