New map of the cosmic web is the most detailed ever

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have produced the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever made.

The work traces the network of galaxies all the way back to when the universe was one billion years old.

The cosmic web is the universe’s vast, skeleton-like framework—a network of interwoven filaments and sheets of dark matter and gas that surround immense, nearly empty voids. It forms the underlying architecture of the cosmos, linking galaxies and clust...