Our local supercluster spans 10 times the diameter of the Local Group, gathering smaller groups and clusters of galaxies together into a galactic megacity. Skip to content Introducing the all-new ...

Our local supercluster, Laniakea, contains the Milky Way, our local group, the Virgo cluster, and... [+] many smaller groups and clusters on the outskirts.

In fact, the whole Virgo Supercluster is just a small fraction of the Laniakea Supercluster. “The Local Supercluster, we now see quite clearly, is just an appendange on Laniakea,” Tully said.

Mapping our local supercluster is rather difficult. First, it doesn’t really have a defined edge like a solid planet; it just kinda fades out with distance, until the next supercluster comes along.

Our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a much larger formation, the local Supercluster structure, which contains several massive galaxy clusters and thousands of individual galaxies. Due to its ...

A huge structure, the Laniakea Supercluster is 500 million light-years in diameter and contains 100,000 galaxies. Laniakea is Hawaiian for "immense heaven," and it's also called the Local ...

The Shapley Supercluster: A New Galactic Basin. The Shapley Supercluster, also referred to as a basin of attraction, is a massive region of space teeming with galaxy clusters and dark matter.Its ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Both types of galaxies are also found in the Local Supercluster, but while the Supergalactic Plane is teeming with bright ellipticals, bright disk galaxies are conspicuously absent.

The directions toward which the Sun and our galaxy are moving in space change rapidly, with increasing distance of the galaxies used as a reference frame. This effect, which is a manifestation of ...

A newly discovered supercluster of galaxies is so distant that astronomers say its light has been traveling for over 12 billion years to reach telescopes on Earth. ... in the local universe.