The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University.

Sloan Great Wall

Cosmic structure formed by a galaxy filament

The Sloan Great Wall (SGW) is a cosmic structure formed by a giant wall of galaxies. Its discovery was announced from Princeton University on October 20, 2003, by J. Richard Gott III, Mario Jurić, and their colleagues, based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

List of largest cosmic structures

This is a list of the largest cosmic structures so far discovered. The unit of measurement used is the light-year.

Princeton University

Private university in Princeton, New Jersey, US

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial…

October 20

Day of the year

October 20 is the 293rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 72 days remain until the end of the year.