The Observable Universe in Crystal

The biggest structures in the known universe are the distribution of galaxies as found in the Sloan Survey: clusters and threads of galaxies, light and dark matter, megaparsecs in size.

Bathsheba Grossman etches that 3-D map into a cube of crystal using a laser.

A friend received one of these for a Christmas present. It’s a wonderfully geeky piece of sculpture. I want one.

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