A figure from a paper by Geller et al, showing the arrangement of galaxies in a pie-shaped sector of the sky. The dots representing galaxies form long filaments, with relatively empty areas between them.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 19:45:30 UTC Robert McNees

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   Again, the work was not well-received.

   But Rubin was ahead of her time, and the investigation of large-scale structure would soon become one of the major themes of astronomy!

   For example, observations in the 1980s by Margaret Geller and collaborators, showing galaxies clustered along delicate filaments that outlined vast and nearly empty voids.

   What Geller described as looking like a “kitchen sink full of soap suds.”

   Figure: de Lapparent, Geller, Huchra (APJ, 302:L1-L5)