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Sheets and Voids: Caption, Credits and Copyright
Large-scale structure in the universe in the northern and southern galactic hemispheres.
Each of the 9,325 points in this image represents a galaxy. The Earth lies at the center;
unmapped regions to the top and bottom are inaccessible because the plane of the Milky Way obscures them.
Note the large-scale patterns in both hemispheres, like the Great Wall stretching across the northern hemisphere.
Courtesy: Margaret J. Geller and Emilio E. Falco, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Credit: Geller, da Costa, Huchra, and Falco.
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