"Plus, the team even found that parts of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall are actually closer to Earth than previously suspected."
Sentences like this make me hate science journalism. It's so fucking meaningless to say this. We can't reach it, talk to it, it's not a conceivably functional metric, it is a conceptual object with no continuity of note other than the shape we've observed from our vantage point... We have no idea if it's actually a cohesive thing or just coincidentally so.
"ooh, it's closer!" it's like asking, "how long is a string?"