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A Gigantic Spinning Filament of 14 Galaxies Could Be the Largest Rotating Structure Ever Found

This spinning branch of the cosmic web binds 14 galaxies together. Credit: Lyla Jung. In a recently published study, astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope have identified what could be the largest rotating object ever observed in space.

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'Tornado' of Galaxies Is The Longest Spinning Structure Ever Seen

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Astronomers find vast spinning filament of galaxies 140 million light-years away

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Scientists Finds Galaxies Rotating Together Inside Massive Dark Matter Thread

The universe has revealed a surprising pattern as a group of galaxies inside a huge dark matter filament has been found rotating in the same direction as the filament itself. This unusual finding ...

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Glowing bridge links dwarf galaxies in stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

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Blue Sky Science: How many galaxies are in the universe?

Q How many galaxies are in the universe? — Gus Powvens, Madison, Wis. A Jim Lattis, director of the UW Space Place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Galaxies are clouds of stars that ...

This Might Be the Biggest Thing in the Universe That Spins

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

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