Big Ring
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title:
Big Ring
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The Big Ring is a ring-shaped large-scale structure formed by galaxies and galaxy clusters near the constellation Boötes with a diameter of 1.3 billion light years, located 9.2 billion light years away. It was discovered in 2024 by Alexia Lopez, a PhD student at the University of Central Lancashire. In 2021, she discovered the Giant Arc, a similar structure located in the same region. It is a significant astronomical discovery, as it challenges the Cosmological Principle. Currently, there is no
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Ring-shaped large-scale structure near the constellation Boötes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ring
date created:
2024-01-13T00:49:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:08:31Z
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