Gargantuan chunk of ‘cosmic web’ discovered. It’s 50 million light-years long.
Astronomers discover one of the longest filaments of the cosmic web. And it may help solve the puzzle of the universe’s missing matter.
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How to watch tonight’s ‘great conjunction’ of Jupiter and Saturn
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Marriage and Other Gender-Based Violence
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