The Virgo Supercluster: Our 100,000 closest galaxies Small groups combine with larger clusters to form a vast network of interconnected galaxies that spans 110 million light-years.

Our local supercluster spans 10 times the diameter of the Local Group, gathering smaller groups and clusters of galaxies together into a galactic megacity.

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 could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

If you want to pinpoint your place in the universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea.

The Virgo Supercluster is an appendage of the Laniakea Supercluster, an unfathomably immense filamentous web of 100,000 galaxies.

The Virgo cluster forms the heart of the larger Virgo Supercluster from which the Local Group of galaxies, containing our own Milky Way galaxy, belongs.

The Virgo cluster and the surrounding groups form what’s known as the Virgo supercluster (an unfortunate and confusing duplication of names, but it is what it is).

In turn, the Virgo Supercluster is part of a larger structure of galaxy clusters called Laniakea, Hawaiian for "immense heaven." It contains about 100,000 galaxies, according to Space.com.

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 ...