Astronomers have revealed the largest known structure in the universe, which is made up of not only clusters of galaxies but also clusters of these clusters that form a gravitationally interacting ...

Astronomers have identified an unprecedented cosmic titan—a vast superstructure of galaxies stretching 1.3 billion light-years across, making it the single largest known structure in the universe.

Solar masses are a unit of measurement used in astronomy to express the mass of other celestial objects in comparison to the mass of the Sun. Quipu is the largest structure, in terms of length, ever ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...

A team of international astronomers has identified what is believed to be the largest known superstructure in the cosmos, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of outer space. According to ...

In 1972, the artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña strung blue yarn around her bedroom in the coastal city of Con Cón, Chile. “Tired of my room’s normality I have criss-crossed it with a blue thread … taut ...

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