China Focus: Astronomers release giant 2D map of universe


By Liu YiweiYu Fei
  • World
  • Thursday, 14 Jan 2021

BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- An international research team has released a giant 2D map of the universe, the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences said Thursday.

Conducted by the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) of the NAOC and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the study paves the way for the upcoming new-generation dark energy spectroscopic survey.

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