Mapping the Universe.
Abstract
Galaxies congregate into clusters, clusters amass into superclusters and so on - at every observed scale, as astronomers build maps of the sky, they find matter organized into clumps. Yet taken as a whole, the texture of the universe is smooth, in keeping with theory. A new "music of the spheres" may explain how ordered structures emerged from the original smooth chaos.
- Publication:
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Scientific American
- Pub Date:
- June 1999
- Bibcode:
- 1999SciAm.280f..30L
- Keywords:
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- Universe: Large-Scale Structure