{"id":215491,"date":"2025-06-06T05:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/largest-map-of-the-universe-announced-revealing-800000-galaxies-challenging-early-cosmos-theories"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:15:31","slug":"largest-map-of-the-universe-announced-revealing-800000-galaxies-challenging-early-cosmos-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/largest-map-of-the-universe-announced-revealing-800000-galaxies-challenging-early-cosmos-theories","title":{"rendered":"Largest map of the universe announced revealing 800,000 galaxies, challenging early cosmos theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/largest-map-of-the-universe-announced-revealing-800000-galaxies-challenging-early-cosmos-theories2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built with data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), consists of all the imaging and a catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all of cosmic time. And it\u2019s been challenging existing notions of the infant universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal was to construct this deep field of space on a physical scale that far exceeded anything that had been done before,\u201d said UC Santa Barbara physics professor Caitlin Casey, who co-leads the COSMOS-Web collaboration alongside Jeyhan Kartaltepe of the Rochester Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you had a printout of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field on a standard piece of paper,\u201d she said, referring to the iconic view of nearly 10,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/galaxies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">galaxies<\/a> released by NASA in 2004, \u201cour image would be slightly larger than a 13-foot by 13-foot-wide mural, at the same depth. So it\u2019s really strikingly large.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built with data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), consists of all the imaging and a catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}