galaxy

A bowtie-shaped spectral of lights representing the universe. The center is bright green, then radiates the hot pink, magenta, yellow, and then white and finally gray.

Largest 3-D map of the universe ever created

Adapted from a release by Jordan Raddick
SDSS public information officer
July 20, 2020

The results are measurements of more than 2 million galaxies and quasars covering 11 billion years of cosmic time.

Discovery points to origin of mysterious ultraviolet radiation

Lisa Potter
science writer, University of Utah Communications
March 9, 2020

Infalling gas found, star-forming galaxies likely primary energy source of Lyman-alpha radiation emitted from gigantic hydrogen gas blobs.

CATCHING SOME RAYS

Janelle Hanson
June 22, 2015

Physicists plan to expand Telescope Array cosmic ray observatory, seeking the source of the most energetic particles in the universe.