The Ladder of Scale · structure
Boötes Void
Void · 330 million ly
- Coordinates
- 14h 51m 47.0s +45° 47′ 43.9″ · NAME Bootes Void via Sc
- RA (deg)
- 222.94584
- Dec (deg)
- 45.79553
- Within
- —
- Distance (ly)
- 700000000
- Recognised
- 1981
- Population
- about 60 galaxies where thousands were expected
- Size (ly)
- 330000000
- Kind
- Void
- Redshift
- 0.05
Notes
The Great Nothing: a hole 330 million light-years across with almost nothing in it. As Greg Aldering put it, if the Milky Way had been in its centre we would not have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s.
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