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At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in The Universe (www.sciencealert.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We call an atom a thing too.
(And it's just a bunch of things far apart.)

As well as mountain ranges, which would be a good analogy of how this helps us understand the "local relief" (of the observable universe).