Grus Wall

The Grus Wall is a superstructure of galaxies ("wall of galaxies") formed in the early universe,^[1][2] named for the Grus constellation in which it is found ("grus" is Latin for "crane").^[3] It has an average redshift of z=2.38 and lies about 10.8 billion light-years away. The Wall is around 300 million light-years long, comparable in size to the Sloan Great Wall.^[3] The Wall is "perpendicular" to the Fornax Wall and Sculptor Wall.^[4][5]

Artist's interpretation

The Grus Wall was discovered in 2003 by Povilas Palunas, Paul Francis, Harry Teplitz, Gerard Williger, and Bruce E. Woodgate through the use of wide-field telescopes.^[3]

Further reading

• Maurogordato, S. (1995). Maurogordato, S. (ed.). Clustering in the Universe: Proceedings of the XXXth Rencontres de Moriond, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, March 11-18, 1995. Proceedings of the ... Rencontre de Moriond. Gif-sur-Yvette: Atlantica Séguier Frontières. ISBN 978-2-86332-189-8.

References

1. Maurogordato 1995, p. 69
2. Maurogordato 1995, p. 124
3. "NASA - Top Story: Giant Galaxy String Defies Models of how Universe Evolved". www.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 2004-12-09. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
4. Fairall, A. P. (August 1995). "Large-scale structures in the distribution of galaxies". Astrophysics and Space Science. 230 (1–2): 225–235. Bibcode:1995Ap&SS.230..225F. doi:10.1007/BF00658183. ISSN 0004-640X.
5. O'Meara, Stephen James (2013). Southern gems. Deep-sky companions. Cambridge: Cambridge university press. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-107-01501-2. Retrieved 11 October 2018.