Figure 14-20 The Large-Scale Distribution of Galaxies (a) This map shows the distribution of 62,559 galaxies in two wedges extending out to about 5 billion ly. Note the prominent voids surrounded by thin regions full of galaxies. (b) The two wedges shown in (a) lie roughly perpendicular to the plane of the Milky Way. These were chosen to avoid the obscuring dust that lies in our Galaxy’s plane.