Orbits of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. Our home Milky Way galaxy (MW, yellow) and our companion Andromeda galaxy (M31, red) are participating in a downward flow away from a vast underdense ...

The name fits so well - Laniakea. It means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian, and now it's home. In the biggest sense of 'big picture' you can imagine. Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's ...

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 ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

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The Einasto Supercluster is so vast that it would take a light signal 360 million years to get from one end to the other. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...