Galaxy Zoo Talk

Laniakea our home supercluster

  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    Video on this NASA website

    https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/laniakea-our-home-supercluster/

    Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies
    – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have
    struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another
    begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique
    that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space.
    Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home
    supercluster and name it Laniakea, which means ‘immeasurable heaven’
    in Hawaiian. Credit: Nature

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