A massive filament eruption on the sun carved out a ~250,000-mile-long (~400,000 km) 'canyon of fire'. See time-lapsed ...

Galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe containing galaxies with mixed stellar population types and structures. They inject gas into galaxies, helping them grow and evolve.

Cosmic connections: this map made by the MUSE instrument at the Very Large Telescope shows gas filaments in blue running horizontally. The white dots embedded within these filaments are very active ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a "razor-thin" string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic ...