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The Laniakea Supercluster (/ ˌlɑːni.əˈkeɪ.ə /; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven") [2] or the Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies.
A new map of a giant group of galaxies known as the Laniakea Supercluster is giving scientists a revealing glimpse of our Milky Way galaxy's home in the universe. See it here.
A new map of the Milky Way's cosmic neighborhood shows where our galaxy lives in relation to thousands of others nearby, with scientists giving the newly discovered "supercluster" of galaxies a...
A new study in Nature finds that the Milky Way is part of a broader supercluster of 100,000 galaxies known as Laniakea. Nature Video. We know that the Earth and the solar system are located in...
Astronomers have dubbed the newly identified structure the South Pole Wall. The South Pole Wall lies immediately beyond the Laniakea Supercluster, wrapping the region like an arm. The densest part of it lies in the direction of the Earth’s South Pole, inspiring the name.
The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies. R. Brent Tully, Helene Courtois, Yehuda Hoffman, Daniel Pomarède. Galaxies congregate in clusters and along filaments, and are missing from large regions referred to as voids.
They identify a 'home' supercluster that they name Laniakea — from the Hawaiian lani and akea ('heaven' and 'spacious'). It includes the Virgo cluster, the Norma, Hydra and Centaurus clusters...
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) — among other telescopes — have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have dubbed “Laniakea,” which means “immense heaven” in Hawaiian.
This so-called Laniakea Supercluster is 500 million light-years in diameter and contains the mass of 100 million billion Suns spread across 100,000 galaxies.
In “ Our Place in the Cosmos,” the astronomers Noam I. Libeskind and R. Brent Tully detail the discovery of Laniakea, a supercluster of about 100,000 large galaxies that includes our own Milky...