The first structures to form are quasars, which are thought to be bright, early active galaxies, and population III stars.

These 'clouds' are actually galaxies close to our own Milky Way.

There is also evidence for similar Gould belts in other galaxies.

This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.

The Virgo Supercluster ( Virgo SC ) or the Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is a mass concentration of galaxies which contains the Virgo Cluster in addition to the Local Group, which in turn contains the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.

And we go through a period of accelerating expansion, and the universe expands and cools until it gets to the point where it becomes transparent, then to the Dark Ages, and then the first stars turn on, and they evolve into galaxies, and then later they get to the more expansive galaxies.

The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) is a large cluster of galaxies that contains over 1,000 identified galaxies.

We've seen under the sea, three miles down, or galaxies hundreds of billions of years out in the future.

A possible cause of such a warp could be gravitational interaction with the satellite galaxies near M31.

The Virgo cluster lies within the Virgo Supercluster, and its gravitational effect slows down the nearby galaxies.

This arises from the light from three galaxies at distances of 3, 6, and 11 billion light years.

Note the smaller galaxies visible in the image are in the distant background they are not satellites.

This was the first accurate determination of the distance to a GRB, and together with the discovery of the host galaxy of 970228 proved that GRBs occur in extremely distant galaxies.

Although there was a remote chance that the burst and this galaxy were unrelated, their positional coincidence provided strong evidence that GRBs occur in distant galaxies rather than within the Milky Way.

So if we imagine a section of our infinite universe and so I've put down four spiral galaxies, OK and imagine that you put down a set of tape measures, so every line on here corresponds to a tape measure, horizontal or vertical, for measuring where things are.

Visualization of Nearby Large Scale Structures Fairall, A. P., Paverd, W. R., Ashley, R. P. Hierarchical structure and dynamics of voids arXiv 1203.0248

On July 11, 2007, using the 10 metre Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea, Richard Ellis of the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena and his team found six star forming galaxies about 13.2 billion light years away and therefore created when the Universe was only 500 million years old.