A new cosmic map is giving scientists an unprecedented look at the boundaries for the giant supercluster that is home to Earth's own Milky Way galaxy and ... part of massive clusters made up ...

That is the name scientists have given the gigantic super-cluster of galaxies that contains ... The researchers compared the galactic flow with that of water in a landscape of hills and valleys ...

In a study published December 4 in The Astrophysical Journal, an international team of astronomers produced the most detailed map ... galaxy currently within 40 million light-years of the Virgo ...

It's designed to gather an all-sky survey in the medium energy X-ray range, and help build a map of the galaxy clusters and groups – along with the hot gases in filaments between them – that ...

Learn how scientists found the universe's missing matter hiding in a massive cosmic filament stretching 23.5 million ...

By Dennis Overbye Like basketball scouts discovering a nimble, super ... great spiral galaxy Andromeda. “So, our efforts of following up on the formerly known potential proto-cluster finally ...

But when the two clusters collided with one another, they formed a still unsettled super cluster about ... readings to generate a "weather map" of the two galaxy clusters and make a forecast ...

Those are giant conglomerations of many galaxy clusters (one galaxy cluster can sometimes contain about 1,000 individual galaxies!) typically located in the threads of the cosmic web permeating ...

Super star clusters are young clusters of stars thousands of times bigger than our sun that are all packed in a small area. Our galaxy used to produce more clusters billions of years ago ...