The result of compiling the Sloan data is a three-dimensional map of the objects in the nearby universe.

The last stop in the nearby universe is the center of our galaxy, site of a black hole four million times the mass of the Sun.

We can see this phenomenon in merging galaxies in the nearby universe.

It contains some of the many interacting and merging galaxies known in our relatively nearby universe.

Astronomers observe only one out of a million galaxies in the nearby universe in the act of colliding.

Distance moduli are most commonly used when expressing the distance to other galaxies in the relatively nearby universe.

The survey has mapped the nearby universe over nearly half the sky.

"Cosmology has a crying need of an accurate map of the nearby universe," he writes.

Starburst galaxies can only be studied in detail in the nearby universe, where they are much rarer.

Using the galaxies in the nearby universe as a 'fossil record,' we can compare them with young galaxies far away.