supervoid

supervoid
A very large void, especially one devoid of superclusters

Wikipedia foundation.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Northern Local Supervoid — The Northern Local Supervoid is a region of space devoid of rich clusters of galaxies, known as a void. It is located between the Local, Coma and Hercules superclusters. It contains a few small galaxy systems and galaxy clusters but is mostly… …   Wikipedia

  • Southern Local Supervoid — The Southern Local Supervoid is a tremendously large, nearly empty region of space, devoid of galaxies, known as a void.It lies next to the Local Supercluster, which contains our galaxy the Milky Way. Its center is 96 megaparsecs away and the… …   Wikipedia

  • WMAP cold spot — In 2004 the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mapped out a region in the Eridanus Constellation which had cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) that was cooler than the surrounding area. [Vielva, Martínez González, Barreiro, Sanz… …   Wikipedia

  • Void (astronomy) — The universe within 1 billion light years (307 Mpc) of Earth, showing local superclusters and voids …   Wikipedia

  • Eridanus (constellation) — Infobox Constellation name = Eridanus abbreviation = Eri genitive = Eridani symbology = the River RA = 3.25 dec= −29 areatotal = 1138 arearank = 6th numbermainstars = 24 numberbfstars = 87 numberstarsplanets = 4 numberbrightstars = 4… …   Wikipedia

  • Vacío (astronomía) — El universo 1000 millones de años luz (307 Mpc) alrededor de la Tierra, mostrando el supercúmulo local y los vacíos …   Wikipedia Español

  • Large-scale structure of the cosmos — In physical cosmology, the term large scale structure refers to the characterization of observable distributions of matter and light on the largest scales (typically on the order of billions of light years). Sky surveys and mappings of the… …   Wikipedia

  • Observable universe — For a general discussion of the universe, see Universe. Visualization of the 93 billion light year – or 28 billion parsec – three dimensional observable universe. The scale is such that the fine grains of light represent collections of large… …   Wikipedia

  • Eridanus — The name Eridanus can refer to: *Eridanos (mythology) (or Eridanus), a river in Greek mythology, associated by Herodotus with the Po River *Eridanos (geology), a large river that flowed between 40 million and 700 thousand years ago from Lapland… …   Wikipedia

  • 1 yottametre — To help compare different orders of magnitude, this page lists distances starting at 1 Ym (1024 m or 110 million light years). Distances shorter than 10 Ym 1.2 Ym 127 million light years Distance to the closest observed gamma ray burst GRB 980425 …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”