
Jane Slater
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Jane Slater
@SlaterNFL
Reporter for the NFL Network. Relief pitcher for @1053thefan. Univ. of Texas alumna. Former local newshound. Sci fi geek/news junkie. IG:@janeashleyslater





I got Cookie Monster at mine. Which I thought was iconic as a Sesame Street alum but this is awesome





Imagine a silence so profound it swallows entire galaxies. There exists a void in space so incomprehensibly vast that a traveler moving at the speed of light — the fastest anything can go — would plunge through unbroken, starless darkness for 752,536,988 years before encountering even a single speck of matter.This is the Boötes Void (also known as the Great Nothing), one of the most staggering empty regions ever mapped in our observable universe. Spanning roughly 330 million light-years across, it contains almost nothing — just a lonely handful of galaxies where thousands should exist. It is a cosmic abyss so empty it defies our intuition about what “space” even means.Using deep-sky maps from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other powerful observatories, astronomers have revealed these enormous voids as dark, yawning gaps between the glowing filaments of galaxies that form the large-scale structure of the cosmos. In the early universe, gravity acted like a sculptor, pulling matter into vast cosmic webs and threads, leaving behind these immense, hollow pockets — nature’s ultimate voids.Even more strangely, galaxies seem to crowd nervously along the edges of these empty zones, as if shunning the desolation at their cores. The universe, it turns out, is not a uniformly filled expanse. It resembles a delicate cosmic spiderweb: shimmering strands of galaxies and clusters connected by thin filaments, with cavernous voids making up the majority of its volume.In a cosmos teeming with billions of galaxies, these voids stand as humbling reminders that much of existence is defined not by presence, but by absence. They challenge everything we think we know about “empty” and “full,” whispering of a universe far stranger, far lonelier, and far more mysterious than we ever dared imagine.A quiet kind of infinity — not shouting, simply being.


C is for cookie.














