Galaxy Shapes in an Attic
Pale Blue Pod
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The Island Universe
There is something very cozy about having your own space to yourself. Everyone needs that, everyone needs a large apartment or a house. Some galaxies are more isolated than others. Most galaxies exist in little local clusters of galaxies that we call galaxy clusters. And then those clusters can actually gather into super clusters. If you zoom out even further and you start to see the really large scale structure of the universe, all of these clusters and super clusters gather together in long filaments,. In long strings that look kind of like a web when you zoom out. They're just floating through the void of space, which is different than floating through dark matter.
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