This visualization of the Laniakea supercluster, which represents a collection of more than 100,000 ... The impressively huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+223, ...

Unlike galaxy clusters, superclusters are too big to be bound strongly by gravity, and there’s some debate among astronomers about how to define what a supercluster is. In the new paper ...

Laniakea, described in the journal Nature, stretches some 500 million light years across and holds 100,000 galaxies with the mass of a hundred million billion suns.

"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 ...

Our own supercluster, Laniakea, consists of approximately 100,000 galaxies, more than 10 times richer than the largest known clusters. Yet these superclusters only appear to be structures.

Norma, Hydra, Centaurus, Virgo, Ophiuchus, A2870, A3581 and A3656 are individual clusters of galaxies embedded within the Laniakea supercluster. Shapley, Hercules, Coma and Perseus–Pisces are ...

The new maps show that the Milky Way galaxy, along with the Virgo cluster and some 100,000 other galaxies, is gravitationally sailing in the same gigantic cosmic pool, named Laniakea. Most ...

Huge galaxy cluster is wrapped in a cocoon 20 million light-years wide, NASA space telescope finds; This computer-generated depiction of the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies, ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of ...

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.