Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking is set to reveal plans to map the entire known universe at a conference held in his honour.

Prof Hawking, a cosmology professor at Cambridge University, will detail how a supercomputing centre he founded in the city will use images of radiation to create the map.

He is set to discuss the plans at the Starmus science conference – this year themed as a "tribute to Stephen Hawking" – which begins today in Tenerife.

The COSMOS supercomputing centre was founded in Cambridge in 1997 by a group of scientists brought together by Prof Hawking.

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