Cosmic Web (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Cosmic Web

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Galaxies are distributed along a cosmic web in the universe. "Mpc/h" is a unit of galactic distance (1 Mpc/h is more than 3.2 million light-years).

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Volker Springel, Virgo Consortium

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