Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching approximately 1.3 billion light-years long—more than 13,000 ...

A diagram-type image representing stellar shells and tidal streams in haloes of nearby galaxies. . | Credit: Martinez, Delgado et al. Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the universe ...

Our opening quote contended that Venn diagrams are overrated. Even those who agree must admit that they have a curious allure. Take the sets of interesting topics in logic, in geometry and in ...

The expansion of the Universe is not constant ... Our Sun is on one of the spiral arms as shown in the diagram: The Sun's orbital speed is determined almost entirely by the gravitational pull ...

This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below is a heat map showing that temperature was not evenly distributed. This is a whole sky Planck space telescope image of the ...