Nine big objects that are out of this world

By Deven Short, Staff writer

Have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered what all is out there? As it turns out, the universe houses some pretty large elements. Consider these to elicit your sense of wonder:

The Observable Universe

It’s the farthest we can see in deep space from Earth, the edge of which is about 47 billion light-years away.

The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall

The largest known structure in the universe. The Great Wall stretches 10 billion light-years long and 7.2 billion light-years wide, it’s a massive supercluster found 10 billion light-years away in the constellation of Hercules and Corona Borealis

The Huge-LQG (Large Quasar Group)

Measuring about 4 billion light-years across, the Huge-LQG was found in 2013 and consists of 73 quasars.

The KBC Void

Named after Ryan Keenan, Amy Barger, and Lennox Cowie, this empty blackness spans 2 billion light-years across the night sky. It’s one of the largest supervoids in the Observable universe and contains the Milky Way galaxy

The Laniakea Supercluster

The Laniakea Supercluster holds our Milky Way galaxy and another 100,000 galaxies. The entire supercluster consists of 300 to 500 galaxy clusters, which makes it 520 million light-years across.

The Great Attractor

A diffuse concentration of matter and mysterious gravitational anomaly at the center of the local Laniakea Supercluster. The mysterious anomaly is 400 million light-years in size.

The Newfound Blob

Spanning 200 million light-years across, the amoeba-like structure was found in 2006 by Japanese astronomers. It resembles a swarm of green jellyfish. The object contains clusters of galaxies surrounded by gas clouds, also known as the Lyman alpha blobs.

IC 1101

A galaxy which is among the largest known and most luminous of galaxies. Scientists estimate it to be around 50 to 120 thousand light-years across. It’s a supergiant elliptical galaxy at the center of the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster.

UY Scuti: The largest star in the universe

This red supergiant star measures about 1.5 billion miles across is in the constellation of Scutum and can’t be seen with the naked eye. UY Scuti is near the end of its life. It is found about 1 billion light-years from Earth. It is about about 1,700 times larger than our Sun’s radius and 21 billion times its volume.