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Not one, but two basins at Vesta's south pole

Not one, but two basins at Vesta's south pole
Not one, but two basins at Vesta's south pole This intricate filamentary network is a reconstruction of the cosmic web created by feeding data on the locations and masses of 37,000 galaxies into an algorithm based on the growth patterns of a slime mold. Burchett et al., ApJL, 2020