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Reproducing Real-life Observations
The top image shows the distribution of the brightest galaxies in the local universe as observed in the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), which took place between 1997 and 2001. It used telescopes at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona