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Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe
The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental assumptions about the universe ...
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Scientists Just Discovered ‘Quipu,’ the New Largest Structure in Our Cosmos
But it’s also just one Solar System among billions in the Milky Way, which is turn a part of the Virgo Supercluster and the even larger Laniakea supercluster—one of the largest objects in the ...
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The Milky Way might be part of an even larger structure than Laniakea
You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...