Editing Cosmography (section)

== Modern usage ==
In [[astrophysics]], the term "cosmography" is beginning to be used to describe attempts to determine the large-scale [[Observable universe#Large-scale structure|matter distribution]] and [[kinematics]] of the [[universe|observable universe]], dependent on the [[Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric]] but independent of the temporal dependence of the [[Scale factor (cosmology)|scale factor]] on the matter/energy composition of the Universe.<ref>{{cite book
| title      = Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity
| pages      = [https://archive.org/details/gravitationcosmo00stev_0/page/407 407–463]
| last       = Weinberg
| first      = Steven
| publisher  = Wiley
| year       = 1972
| isbn       = 978-0-471-92567-5
| url-access = registration
| url        = https://archive.org/details/gravitationcosmo00stev_0/page/407
}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
| arxiv      = gr-qc/0411131
| last= Visser
| first= Matt
| title= Cosmography: Cosmology without the Einstein equations
| journal= General Relativity and Gravitation
| year= 2005
| volume= 37
| issue= 9
| pages= 1541–1548
| doi= 10.1007/s10714-005-0134-8
|bibcode = 2005GReGr..37.1541V | s2cid= 119414427
}}</ref>
The word was also commonly used by [[Buckminster Fuller]] in his lectures.

Using the [[Tully-Fisher relation]] on a catalog of 10000 galaxies has allowed the construction of 3D images of the local structure of the cosmos.<ref name=SaidTF>{{Cite book |last=Said |first=Khaled |title=Hubble Constant Tension |date=2023-10-24 |editor-last=Di Valentino |editor-first=E |chapter=Tully-Fisher relation  |arxiv=2310.16053 |editor-last2=Brout |editor-first2=D. }}</ref> This led to the identification of a local supercluster named the [[Laniakea Supercluster]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tully |first1=R. Brent |last2=Courtois |first2=Hélène |last3=Hoffman |first3=Yehuda |last4=Pomarède |first4=Daniel |date=2014-09-03 |title=The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13674 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=513 |issue=7516 |pages=71–73 |doi=10.1038/nature13674 |pmid=25186900 |arxiv=1409.0880 |bibcode=2014Natur.513...71T |s2cid=205240232 |issn=0028-0836}}</ref>