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Galaxies don't float around randomly. They line up along thread-like structures called filaments, tied together at knots called galaxy clusters. JWST's COSMOS-Web survey has now produced the highest-resolution map of this cosmic web ever made, reaching back to just one billion years after the Big Bang.
Galaxies aren't scattered randomly through space. JWST's COSMOS-Web survey used 164,000 galaxies to chart the cosmic web in unprecedented detail — and the implications are remarkable. From SORABUMI.
Galaxy clusters — the most massive objects in the universe — may contain roughly twice the baryonic mass astronomers have long assumed. The culprit is something no one bothered counting seriously: the accumulated remains of dead stars.
A complaint arrives at the Cosmic Zoning Office — from a galaxy that never got to choose where it ended up.