A Giant 'Wall' of Galaxies Has Been Found Stretching Across The ...
WEBJul 14, 2020 · Such a structure has just been discovered arcing across the southern edge of the sky, and it's a colossus, spanning an immense 1.37 billion light-years from end to end. Its discoverers have named it the South Pole Wall.
Beyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall - The New York Times
WEBJul 10, 2020 · Astronomers have discovered a vast assemblage of galaxies hidden behind our own, in the “zone of avoidance.” The starry core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy, in an infrared image from NASA...
Astronomers found a giant “wall” of galaxies hiding in plain sight
WEBJul 13, 2020 · In fact, this is part of the reason it was so hard to find until now—it is situated right behind the Milky Way galaxy, in a place called the Zone of Galactic Obscuration, where the galaxy’s...
Hidden Supercluster Could Solve Milky Way Mystery
WEBNov 21, 2017 · Astronomers generally stay away from the “Zone of Avoidance.” When one astronomer didn’t, she found a giant cosmic structure that could help explain why our galaxy moves so fast.
Does outer space end – or go on forever? - The Conversation
WEBJun 21, 2021 · Scientists now consider it unlikely the universe has an end – a region where the galaxies stop or where there would be a barrier of some kind marking the end of space. But nobody knows for...
Astronomers have found the edge of the Milky Way at last - Science News
WEBMar 23, 2020 · Our galaxy is a whole lot bigger than it looks. New work finds that the Milky Way stretches nearly 2 million light-years across, more than 15 times wider than its luminous spiral disk.
Zone of Avoidance - Wikipedia
WEBWhen viewing space from Earth, the attenuation, interstellar dust and stars in the plane of the Milky Way (the galactic plane) obstruct the view of around 20% of the extragalactic sky at visible wavelengths. As a result, optical galaxy catalogues are usually incomplete close to the galactic plane.
This Is How Astronomers Solved The ‘Zone Of Avoidance’ Mystery
WEBDec 3, 2018 · From the time of their very first discovery, the Universe’s grand spirals have puzzled astronomers. This ultraviolet composite image of the Andromeda galaxy, taken by the GALEX spacecraft ...
James Webb: Earliest and most distant galaxy ever observed
WEBMay 30, 2024 · The distant galaxy (circled) sits next to, but far behind, another galaxy. The James Webb Space Telescope has smashed its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy. Called...
Is there anything beyond the universe? | Space
WEBFeb 25, 2022 · The cosmos is only so old, and light only travels so fast. So, in the history of the universe, we haven't received light from every single galaxy. The current width of the observable universe is...
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