This gathering, 10 million light-years wide, lives on the edge of a collection of galaxy clumps called the Local, or Virgo, Supercluster. British astronomers and father-son duo William and John ...

The Virgo Cluster - containing 2000 galaxies – sits around 55 million to 65 million light years away, and is the central pivot of our supercluster (hence the name the ‘Virgo Supercluster’).

The Milky Way galaxy was long thought to be a member of the Virgo supercluster, a complex, twisting branch containing more than 100 individual galaxy groups and clusters stretching for more than a ...

The Milky Way sits in a backwater among these flowing galaxies, near a far edge of the supercluster. In fact, the whole Virgo Supercluster is just a small fraction of the Laniakea Supercluster.

Our Milky Way galaxy is speeding through the emptiness ... The Virgo cluster and the surrounding groups form what’s known as the Virgo supercluster (an unfortunate and confusing duplication ...

of which the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are members, compose the Virgo Supercluster. About 100 galaxy groups (each group numbers about 50 galaxies) are concentrated in an area about 110 ...

A dark sky preserve in Portugal serves up 1,900 galaxies to feast upon. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates ...

We lie, of course, in the Milky Way Galaxy. That is in turn part of the local cluster, the Virgo cluster, and the even larger Virgo supercluster, which stretches 110 million light-years and ...

It forms the heart of the even more mind-boggling Virgo Supercluster of 100-plus galaxy groups and clusters which includes the Milky Way. Many of these galaxies are beyond the reach of backyard ...

This structure also sometimes goes by another name: the Virgo Supercluster, after its largest constituent cluster of galaxies, Virgo. That large cluster also happens to lie near the supercluster ...

Since the confirmation of its existence in 2014, the Laniakea supercluster was thought to be our ultimate cosmic neighborhood—home to the Virgo supercluster ... 100,000 galaxies and has a ...