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Sloan Great Wall

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Also known as SGW

one of the largest known structures in the universe

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Within Vinony's link graph, Sloan Great Wall is referenced by 35 other articles, and connects out to galaxy, light-year and Harvard University.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 2003, Discoveries by SDSS and Galaxy filaments.

Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Constellation
Pisces
Distance from Earth
1200000000
Image
2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey.gif
Length
1370000000
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time of discovery or invention
2013-11-00
discoverer or inventor
Mario Jurić
redshift
1.85
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Encyclopedic overview

The Sloan Great Wall in a DTFE reconstruction of the inner parts of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

The Sloan Great Wall (SGW) is a cosmic structure formed by a giant wall of galaxies (a galaxy filament). Its discovery was announced from Princeton University on October 20, 2003, by J. Richard Gott III, Mario Jurić, and their colleagues, based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sloan Great Wall” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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