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A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament – The Conversation AU
A collaboration between Australian and German scientists gives an unrivalled view of the structure of the Universe.
At the very largest scale, the Universe consists of a cosmic web made of enormous, tenuous filaments of gas stretching between gigantic clumps of matter. Or thats what our best models suggest. All we have seen so far with our telescopes are the stars and galaxies in the clumps of matter.
So is the cosmic web real, or a figment of our models? Can we confirm our models by detecting these faint gaseous filaments directly?
Until recently, these filaments have been elusive. But now a collaboration…
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