It would take about half a million HDTVs, according to Discover magazine, to properly appreciate this image, which is the most complete map of the universe ever made. Produced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, what you see here is about one-third of the entire sky, which was built by assembling images taken over a dozen years by the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. Visit the Sloan website to blow up some of the images used to create this map and it’s clear that the massive amounts of data contained here will be invaluable for astronomers who previously worked with a map constructed by the Palomar Sky Survey in the 1950s using photographic plates. View more Pictures of the Day . Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey . Via Discover magazine .

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Picture of the Day: The Most Complete Map of the Universe

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the central coastal area of Chile on Sunday, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Temuco, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

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Major earthquake strikes central Chile

America sure loves Hillary Clinton. For the ninth consecutive year, the Secretary of State placed first in USA Today and Gallup’s national poll seeking the most admired woman in the country. Clinton also topped the survey six times during the time as…

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Obama, Hillary Clinton Most Admired

The American Community Survey offered a snapshot of a decade of racial and ethnic changes in the New York area.

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Region Is Reshaped as Minorities Go to Suburbs

The Arkansas Geological Survey is trying to unravel a mystery: What is causing earthquakes in the town of Guy, Arkansas?

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Quake ‘swarm’ rattles Arkansas town

All the more reason to anticipate the Verizon iPhone: AT&T is the worst wireless provider, according to a Consumer Reports survey. AT&T got the lowest marks in the survey despite boosting wireless spending by $2 billion this year. Tiny U.S….

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AT&T Is Worst Wireless Provider

A British Geological Survey report has identified areas of West Cumbria that may eventually house a deep repository for nuclear waste.

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Cumbria could host nuclear waste

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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7.5 quake strikes off Indonesia

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck Mexico’s Gulf of California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Thursday.

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Strong earthquake hits Mexico

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Friday night 41 km (26 miles) north-northwest of San Jose, Costa Rica, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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Large-format photography of contemporary Americana in Alec Soth’s retrospective Likening his process to “web surfing in the real world,” photographer Alec Soth spent the past 15 years traversing the U.S. with an 8×10 field camera, quietly composing narratives of subjects he finds on his travels. While projects have taken the Twin Cities native down the Mississippi, to Bogota and back across the vast Midwest, Soth’s career retrospective ” From Here To There: Alec Soth’s America ” falls closer to home at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center. The photographer’s vision of the U.S. is a lonely portrait of the American road. Using a free-associative method, Soth links the runaways and vagabonds he often depicts by allowing one person’s story to lead to the next, in a style similar to Robert Frank and William Eggleston. Stylistically, Soth’s use of the large-format camera captures exquisite details, documenting each of his subjects down to tattoos and paint-splattered clothes. The cumbersome camera takes time to set up, but arguably its this time he spends with each person that makes for the disarming intimacy of each image. While the feeling of displacement runs throughout the survey of his work, it’s clear he has given each of his subjects a home among each other. “From Here To There: Alec Soth’s America” includes new works as well as previous projects and is up through through 16 January 2011. Also on Cool Hunting: Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth

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A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Fiji Islands, Wednesday at 4:13 a.m. (12:13 p.m. ET Tuesday), the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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6.3 magnitude quake hits Fiji Islands

UK students’ satisfaction with their courses has stalled at 82%, the annual National Student Survey finds.

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Student satisfaction ‘still 82%’

Applications for opencast mining on greenfield sites are likely to increase to meet the UK’s demand for energy, the British Geological Survey says.

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More pressure for opencast mines

A major earthquake struck the island nation of Vanuatu on Tuesday, the U. S. Geological Survey said.

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7.5-magnitude quake rattles Vanuatu