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Sloan Great Wall

(SGW)
(large slab of galaxies discovered in SDSS)

The Sloan Great Wall (SGW), discovered in 2003 in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data, is a wall-like element of the universe's large scale structure. It is a billion light-years away, is 1.3 billion light-years across and appears in the southern sky, within the constellations Corvus, Hydra, and Centaurus. It includes several superclusters. It displaced the Great Wall as the largest known structure in the universe and was surpassed by the 2013 discovery of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. It has been suggested the SGW is not actually a single structure but three structures in alignment.


(large scale structure)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Great_Wall
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006ChJAA...6...35D/abstract
http://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=SDSS+Great+Wall
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
.074300Mpc1.00GlySloan Great Wall
Coordinates:SGW
1200+0100

Referenced by pages:
galaxy filament
Great Wall
Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall (Her-CrB GW)

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