Filaments in the Sloan Great Wall

The Sloan Great Wall (SGW) is a cosmic structure formed by a giant wall of galaxies. Its discovery was announced by Princeton University on October 20, 2003, by J. Richard Gott III, Mario Jurić and their colleagues, based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Credit:

W. Schaap (Kapteyn Institute, U. Groningen) et al.

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