Cobe is designed to see just the biggest structures, but astronomers would like to see much smaller hot spots as well, the seeds of local objects like clusters and superclusters of galaxies.

Cobe 的设计只是为了观测最大的结构，但天文学家们也希望看到更小的热点，即星系团和超星系团等局部天体的种子。

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Within it, the Wall contains several interesting superclusters.

在其内部，这条“长城”包含几个有趣的超星系团。

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Typical superclusters have many smaller clusters connected by these threads.

典型的超星系团本应该含有成串的小星系团。

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Mapping the modern distribution of these superclusters is one of the tasks of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (another foundation-funded instrument, based in New Mexico), which is scanning a quarter of the sky in unprecedented detail.

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