This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,

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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Hyperion proto-supercluster, illustration. This colossal structure from the early universe was discovered by a team using the VIMOS (Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph) instrument of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). This is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance, some 2 billion years after the Big Bang. This visualization is based on a complex examination of archive data. Image published in 2018.

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Photo credit: © L. Calcada and Olga Cucciati et al./EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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