This image of the three-dimensional distribution of dark matter looks like it’s straight out of Star Trek: the Dark Matter is Condensing and About to Attack the Enterprise.
But apart from that, it’s actually not a great image. It uses the rainbow colormap, and it seems to only convey limited information. Is the distance really all that important? Do they have an image showing amount of mass, but it’s not as pretty? What about the data they used to calculate this, I bet that’s much more interesting than where on an image of the sky the dark matter can be found.
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