And, like most galactic groups and clusters, we're a small part of a larger structure containing over 100,000 galaxies: a supercluster. Ours is named Laniakea: the Hawaiian word for "immense heaven." ...

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The so-called supercluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way has been named "Laniakea," which means "immense heaven" in Hawaiian. Defining regions in an infinite universe is tricky ...

According to the new map, Earth's galaxy lives near the edge of the Laniakea supercluster, which measures 500 million light-years in diameter and includes roughly 100,000 galaxies. The region is ...

The connections between the important Pavo-Indus and Centaurus components of Laniakea, the extension up to Ophiuchus cluster, the filament from the Antlia Wall that ultimately connects to the ...

much bigger supercluster — Laniakea. (The name, aptly enough, means “immeasurable heavens” in Hawaiian.) So what happens when we zoom out? The paper notes that Laniakea borders another ...

It looks like we can now add another locality, squeezed in between the last two: Laniakea (la-NEE-uh-KAY-uh I think is pretty close to how you pronounce it), a galactic supercluster. The folks ...

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...

Since the confirmation of its existence in 2014, the Laniakea supercluster was thought to be our ultimate cosmic neighborhood—home to the Virgo supercluster, the local cluster, and the good old ...

and that's how we've recognized that the Virgo supercluster is just one individual branch of a much larger structure known as Laniakea, which contains an astounding 100,000 galaxies. And that is ...

These basins of attraction are vital to completing our "cosmic address," which begins with Earth, the solar system, the Milky Way, the Virgo cluster, the Virgo supercluster, Laniakea and the ...