Astronomy:Grus Wall

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The Grus Wall is a superstructure of galaxies ("wall of galaxies") formed in the early universe,[1][2] named for the Grus constellation in which it is found ("grus" is Latin for "crane").[3] It has an average redshift of z=2.38 and lies about 10.8 billion light-years away. The Wall is around 300 million light-years long, comparable in size to the Sloan Great Wall.[3] The Wall is "perpendicular" to the Fornax Wall and Sculptor Wall.[4][5]

The Grus Wall was discovered in 2003 by Povilas Palunas, Paul Francis, Harry Teplitz, Gerard Williger, and Bruce E. Woodgate through the use of wide-field telescopes.[3]

Further reading

References

  1. Maurogordato 1995, p. 69
  2. Maurogordato 1995, p. 124
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "NASA - Top Story: Giant Galaxy String Defies Models of how Universe Evolved" (in en). https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0107filament.html. 
  4. Fairall, A. P. (August 1995). "Large-scale structures in the distribution of galaxies" (in en). Astrophysics and Space Science 230 (1–2): 225–235. doi:10.1007/BF00658183. ISSN 0004-640X. Bibcode1995Ap&SS.230..225F. 
  5. O'Meara, Stephen James (2013). Southern gems. Deep-sky companions. Cambridge: Cambridge university press. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-107-01501-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=S5QIEKns33sC. Retrieved 11 October 2018.