Voids

Monoceros Void

One of the 25 nearest voids

From the Sun

71.1 million light-years

Monoceros VoidOpen in 3D

What it is

A region with no bright galaxies, one of the 25 voids within 80 million light-years that Pustilnik et al. (2019) mapped over the whole sky, walled by galaxies brighter than absolute K magnitude −22. It is a cluster of overlapping empty spheres, drawn as the ellipsoid spanning its extent along the supergalactic axes.

In numbers

From the Sun
71.1 million ly
Across
about 58.4 million ly
Galaxies inside
7, mostly dwarfs
RA / Dec
96.0° / -7.0°

Voids