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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Plus, the team even found that parts of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall are actually closer to Earth than previously suspected."

Sentences like this make me hate science journalism. It's so fucking meaningless to say this. We can't reach it, talk to it, it's not a conceivably functional metric, it is a conceptual object with no continuity of note other than the shape we've observed from our vantage point... We have no idea if it's actually a cohesive thing or just coincidentally so.

"ooh, it's closer!" it's like asking, "how long is a string?"

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models of the universe due to its incredibly vast size — and now, using the most powerful blasts of energy in the universe, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), astronomers have discovered this structure is even bigger than they realized. Plus, the team even found that parts of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall are actually closer to Earth than previously suspected.

The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall is a so-called "supercluster" of galaxies; it's a filament of the cosmic web around which the first galaxies in the universe gathered and grew. Its name was coined by Johndric Valdez, a Filipino teenager who aspires to be an astronomer. That name isn't very literal, however. This is because the round-shaped Great Wall spans not just the constellations Hercules and Corona Borealis but also the region of the celestial sphere from the constellations Boötes to Gemini.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 7 points 3 months ago

“It’s called the Nexus, Captain”

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Thats where the real advanced creatures are