{"id":181,"date":"2017-11-13T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T05:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2018-09-07T17:39:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:39:22","slug":"galaxy-explorer-report","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/science\/galaxy-explorer-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Explorer Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a major project combining deep spectra and UV to infrared images for galaxies over 294 square degrees of the sky. <\/span><\/p>\n

The spectra told us how far away these galaxies are, making it possible for us to create a 3D map of around 300,000 galaxies in the local Universe\u2014here\u2019s a cool animation showing this:<\/span><\/p>\n