A deeper and more detailed viewmay be obtained using data from the

Australian based ‘6dF’ survey.

Southern sky only

As used at IPS conference July 2006

Looking back from 500 million light years

Looking back from 1 billion light years

Looking back from 1.5 billion light years

Looking back from 2 bilion light years

Looking back from 2.5 billion light years

Finally, looking back from 2.7 billion light years

Visualisations by ‘Labyrinth’ software, created for A. Fairall by Carl Hultquist and

Samesham PerumalDept. of Computer ScienceUniversity of Cape Town.

First data set extracted fromNASA Extragalactic Database

Second data set from 6dF surveyAnglo-Australian Observatory

With thanks to Matthew Colless, Heath Jones and Lachlan Campbell