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Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years across

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A visualization showing the South Pole Wall, a large cluster of galaxies near the southernmost part of the sky.
(Image: © D. Pomarede, R. B. Tully, R. Graziani, H. Courtois, Y. Hoffman, J. Lezmy.)
 
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Spectacular 3D maps of the universe have revealed one of the biggest cosmic structures ever found — an almost-inconceivable wall stretching 1.4 billion light-years across that contains hundreds of thousands of galaxies.

https://www.livescience.com/south-pole-wall-discovered-in-space.html

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