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Even Laniakea and Perseus-Pisces are just one small pocket of the much broader universe. That universe consists of both voids and densely packed superclusters of galaxies. It looks something like ...
Around Laniakea are four neighbouring superclusters known as Shapley, Hercules, Coma and Perseus-Pisces First supercluster to have its size mapped by astronomers. By MARK PRIGG FOR MAILONLINE ...
This visualization of the Laniakea supercluster, which represents a collection of more than 100,000 ... The Centaurus cluster, the Perseus-Pisces cluster, ...
Shapley, Hercules, Coma and Perseus–Pisces are complexes of galaxies outside Laniakea. The outer black circle defines the domain used to separate between local and tidal flows. The panels ...
The image shows a slice through the Laniakea supercluster and adjacent Shapley and Perseus–Pisces superclusters, as identified by Tully and colleagues 3. Areas of high galaxy density are shown ...
Our own supercluster, Laniakea, consists of approximately 100,000 galaxies, more than 10 times richer than the largest known clusters. ... the Centaurus cluster and the Perseus-Pisces cluster.
A new map defines the boundaries of our local supercluster of galaxies, now called Laniakea. ... (the next one over is called Perseus-Pisces), even if they're right next to each other in the sky.
Everyone on Earth is now a resident of Laniakea. That is the name scientists have given to the gigantic supercluster of galaxies which contains our own Milky Way. It got us thinking. What would a ...
The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for “immeasurable heaven.” The discovery ...