Peering into God's Creative Cosmic Putty of His Cosmic Web....from that moment when God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Genesis 1:3
"Gravity has woven the universe into a cosmic web.
Primordial gas that filled the young cosmos collapsed into expansive sheets, then into filaments, separated by huge voids.
On very large scales, this gas has a texture like soap bubbles or tangled spiderwebs.....— the galaxy UM 287 acts as a cosmic
flashlight to light up a 1.5 million light-years-long filament. But now Umehata and colleagues have imaged the same thing on an even bigger scale.
MUSE detected bright patches emitted by hydrogen gas around the galaxies (this is gas that is bound to the galaxies), as well as fainter patches that connect the galaxies. Most of the fainter emission comes from two filaments that run vertically through the image, extending some 3 million light-years.
The astronomers calculate that this region of cosmic web contains a trillion Suns’ worth of gas.
Moreover, this gas doesn’t stay still. This gas is likely trickling down onto the galaxies...To observe the cosmic web nearby, we would need access to ultraviolet wavelengths that are blocked by Earth’s atmosphere."
Sky&Telescope
"Gravity has woven the universe into a cosmic web.
Primordial gas that filled the young cosmos collapsed into expansive sheets, then into filaments, separated by huge voids.
On very large scales, this gas has a texture like soap bubbles or tangled spiderwebs.....— the galaxy UM 287 acts as a cosmic
MUSE detected bright patches emitted by hydrogen gas around the galaxies (this is gas that is bound to the galaxies), as well as fainter patches that connect the galaxies. Most of the fainter emission comes from two filaments that run vertically through the image, extending some 3 million light-years.
The astronomers calculate that this region of cosmic web contains a trillion Suns’ worth of gas.
Moreover, this gas doesn’t stay still. This gas is likely trickling down onto the galaxies...To observe the cosmic web nearby, we would need access to ultraviolet wavelengths that are blocked by Earth’s atmosphere."
Sky&Telescope