That's roughly 8,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.
“The discovery is a wonderful poster child for the power of visualizations in research," co-lead Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii, told theTo create their map of the South Pole Wall, the cosmographers had to use new sky surveys to peek past the "Zone of Galactic Obscuration," an area in the southern part of the observable universe that's obscured by the comparatively bright Milky Way.
To put the size of the South Pole Wall into perspective, our own Milky Way galaxy is a mere 52,850 light years across. These gigantic structures are made up of countless clumps called "cosmic webs" floating inside enormous clouds of hydrogen gas. Outside these larger structures, there's not a whole lot of stuff, as far as we know.
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