The Hyperion Proto-Supercluster (IMAGE)

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The Hyperion Proto-Supercluster

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An international team of astronomers using the VIMOS instrument of ESO's Very Large Telescope have uncovered a colossal structure in the early Universe. This galaxy proto-supercluster -- which they nickname Hyperion -- was unveiled by new measurements and a complex examination of archive data. This is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance -- merely 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

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ESO/L. Calçada & Olaga Cucciati <em>et al.</em>

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