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The Perseus–Pegasus Filament is a
galaxy filament In cosmology, galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of walls of galactic superclusters. These massive, thread-like formations can commonly reach 50 to 80 megaparsecs ()—with the largest found to date b ...
containing the
Perseus–Pisces Supercluster The Perseus–Pisces Supercluster (SCl 40) is one of the largest known structures in the universe. Even at a distance of 250 million light-years, this chain of galaxy clusters extends more than 40° across the northern winter sky. The Perseus– ...
and stretching for roughly a billion
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s (or over 300/h Mpc). Currently, it is considered to be one of the largest known structures in the universe.The reference cited claims the Perseus-Pisces Filament as the largest known structure in the universe. However, various reports cite the
Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall (HCB) or simply the Great Wall is a galaxy filament that is the List of largest cosmic structures, largest known structure in the observable universe, measuring approximately 10 billion Light-year, light- ...
as the largest at across.
This filament is adjacent to the
Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex The Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex is a galaxy filament. It includes the Laniakea Supercluster which contains the Virgo Supercluster lobe which in turn contains the Local Group, the galaxy cluster that includes the Milky Way. This filament is ...
.


Discovery

While the Perseus–Pegasus Filament was formally discovered by David Batuski and Jack Burns of
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in 1985, it is likely that the Lowell Observatory's
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, best known for being the discoverer of
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, was aware of its existence in 1936 while conducting his search for trans-Saturnian planets. He reported it as the ''Great Perseus-Andromeda stratum of Extra-Galactic Nebulae''. Earlier still, parts of this clustering had been reported by .


See also

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Abell catalogue The Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift ''z'' ≤ 0.2. This catalog supplements a revision of George O. Abell's original "Northern Survey" of 1958, whi ...
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Large-scale structure of the universe The observable universe is a spherical region of the universe consisting of all matter that can be observed from Earth; the electromagnetic radiation from these objects has had time to reach the Solar System and Earth since the beginning of th ...
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Galaxy filament In cosmology, galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of walls of galactic superclusters. These massive, thread-like formations can commonly reach 50 to 80 megaparsecs ()—with the largest found to date b ...
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Supercluster A supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters or galaxy groups; they are among the largest known structures in the universe. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group galaxy group (which contains more than 54 galaxies), which in tu ...
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Big Ring The Big Ring is a ring-shaped large-scale structure formed by galaxies and galaxy clusters near the constellation Boötes with a diameter of 1.3 billion light years, located 9.2 billion light years away. It was discovered in 2024 by Alexia L ...


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References

Galaxy filaments Large-scale structure of the cosmos Astronomical objects discovered in 1985 {{physical-cosmology-stub