Grus Wall Explained

The Grus Wall is a superstructure of galaxies ("wall of galaxies") formed in the early universe, named for the Grus constellation in which it is found ("grus" is Latin for "crane").^[1] 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. The Wall is "perpendicular" to the Fornax Wall and Sculptor Wall.^{[2] [3]}

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.

Further reading

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: NASA - Top Story: Giant Galaxy String Defies Models of how Universe Evolved . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20041209135254/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0107filament.html . 2004-12-09 . 2022-04-09 . www.nasa.gov . en.
2. Fairall . A. P. . August 1995 . Large-scale structures in the distribution of galaxies . Astrophysics and Space Science . en . 230 . 1–2 . 225–235 . 1995Ap&SS.230..225F . 10.1007/BF00658183 . 0004-640X.
3. Book: O'Meara, Stephen James . Southern gems . 2013 . Cambridge university press . 978-1-107-01501-2 . Deep-sky companions . Cambridge . 107 . 11 October 2018.