Sculptor Wall

The Sculptor Wall is a superstructure of galaxies ("wall of galaxies") relatively near to the Milky Way Galaxy (redshift of approximately z=0.03), also known as the Sculptor superclusters.

[1][2] The superstructure is also called the Southern Great Wall, the Great Southern Wall, or just the Southern Wall, in reference to the Northern Great Wall.

The structure is 8000 km/s long (where km/s indicates the rate of expansion between two objects at the extents of a superstructure), 5000 km/s wide, 1000 km/s deep, in redshift space dimensions.

[3][4] Because these structures are so large, it is convenient to estimate their size by measuring their redshift; using a value of 67.8 for Hubble's constant, the size of the structure is approximately 100 Mpc long by 70 Mpc wide by 10 Mpc deep.

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