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A Gigantic Spinning Filament of 14 Galaxies Could Be the Largest Rotating Structure Ever Found
Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...
Q How many galaxies are in the universe? — Gus Powvens, Madison, Wis. A Jim Lattis, director of the UW Space Place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in ...
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Scientists discover one of our universe's largest spinning structures — a 50-million-light-year-long cosmic thread
The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...
The newly discovered structure, known as a cosmic filament, includes a “razor-thin” thread of galaxies. It’s giant, it spins, ...
An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...
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'Tornado' of galaxies could be the longest spinning structure ever seen
A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...
Astronomers believe there are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. But, this number of stars depends on various factors. To figure out how many stars are in the Milky Way, astronomers have to ...
Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in both size and composition. Some contain hundreds of millions of stars while the largest galaxies can contain trillions of stars. And while it’s not entirely ...
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