This visualization presents a 3-D view of the largest structures in the universe. It begins with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and zooms out to reveal data from WMAP.

And Mandelbrot himself wondered if the universe is a fractal. If, as we zoom out, we will see the same kinds of structures appearing again and again. And in a way, that's what we see: a hierarchy ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding stars — Type Ia supernovae — over the next decade. These brilliant explosions ...

Galaxies are the building blocks of the universe. Clusters of galaxies ... Within the disk, the brightest stars trace out the characteristic spiral pattern. Elliptical galaxies are shaped roughly ...