Masayuki Tanaka on "Shedding Light on the Cosmic Skeleton"

Galaxies in the universe are not uniformly distributed. They are arrayed in filamentary structures and form gigantic cosmic spiderweb. Dr. Masayuki Tanaka at the European Southern Observatory, who will join IPMU in January 2010, discovered a huge cosmic spiderweb in the distant universe 5.4 billion light years away using the two most powerful telescope in the world; the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. The newly discovered web is an ideal place to study the formation and evolution of galaxies.

See this article "Shedding Light on the Cosmic Skeleton" at ESO, the European Southern Observatory's site.

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