The Ladder of Scale · structure
Local Sheet
Group · 23 million ly
- Coordinates
- origin — we are inside it
- RA (deg)
- 0
- Dec (deg)
- 0
- Within
- Local Volume
- Recognised
- 2008
- Population
- a flat wall of nearby galaxies
- Size (ly)
- 23000000
- Kind
- Group
Notes
A flattened sheet of galaxies, only about 5 million light-years thick, that the Local Group sits inside and moves with. It faces the Local Void, which is pushing it.
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