Sloan Great Wall

1.37 BILLION LIGHT YEARS

A “Great Wall” is a type of galaxy filament – a cluster of galaxy superclusters – in the rough shape of a wall. The Sloan Great Wall, about a billion light years from us, is one of the biggest filaments we’ve discovered, with a length of 1.37 billion light years. That’s the equivalent of about 7,000 Milky Ways lined up next to each other.

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