Astronomers studying the skies have found that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of an enormous supercluster of galaxies that has been named Laniakea, which comes from the Hawaiian words for ...

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 new 3D map developed by Tully and colleagues shows that the Milky Way galaxy resides in the outskirts of the Laniakea Supercluster, which is about 520 million light-years wide. The ...

"The Laniakea supercluster encompasses 13 major galaxy clusters, including both the Virgo cluster and the Great Attractor -- a giant mass comprising both the Norma galaxy cluster and the Hydra ...

which contained some 100 galaxy groups. But as Tully and his colleagues found, and as the map above shows, this Virgo Supercluster is just part of a much, much bigger supercluster — Laniakea.

previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for “immeasurable heaven.” The discovery, reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature ...

Like hundreds of billions of other planets in our galaxy, we orbit our parent star ... a supercluster. Ours is named Laniakea: the Hawaiian word for "immense heaven." Superclusters have been ...