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The discovery in the 1990s that the Universe's expansion is accelerating fundamentally
changed our understanding not just of how the Universe will evolve but also raised questions
about its composition.
Large galaxy surveys such as the
2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, performed at the
Anglo-Australian telescope in New South Wales, Sloan Digital Sky Survey have mapped the positions in the sky of
extremely large numbers millions of nearby galaxies, and show that rich, complex structure exists on even the largest scales.
Our inability to replicate the Universe within the confines of a laboratory makes
doing accurate Cosmology inherently difficult, and it is hoped that this
practical exercise will give you an appreciation for the power and limitations of
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separated by relatively empty `voids'.
The network of filaments and voids form what is known as the `Cosmic Web', itself
a relatively recent and extremely important discovery in cosmology.
In Figure 3 we show an image of the cosmic web constructed from the
Sloan Digital Sky 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey,
a survey performed at the Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales
which measured the positions and redshifts (a cosmological unit of distance) of
millions of several hundred thousand galaxies.