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This image shows the entire sky, projected onto an oval-shaped map. A circle surrounds the map and a grid of co-ordinates is overlain. Millions of points are shown on this image, each of which represents a galaxy. Those galaxies are colour-coded by redshift: nearby, low-redshift galaxies are shown in purple, blue and green; distant, high-redshift galaxies are shown in yellow, orange and red. While the galaxies are distributed across the sky in a mostly uniform manner, filaments are visible where galaxies are most common. Galaxies in these filaments have similar redshifts. A dark band across the centre of the image shows the plane of the Milky Way, through which galaxies are not visible.