Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster
September 10, 2014 at 9:32 am | Posted in Media, Science, Space | 2 CommentsThe understanding of the place our galaxy holds in the universe has been evolving.
Laniakea means “immeasurable heaven” in Hawaiian.
Earth’s new address: ‘Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea’ discusses this
also
New Galaxy Map Relocates The Milky Way
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Here’s another article with a new, even larger view containing more than Laniakea
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/01/the-great-repeller-previously-unknown-region-void-of-galaxies-is-pushing-the-milky-way.html
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Comment by David— January 31, 2017 #
[…] of space around us. I’ve posted on The Ultra Deep Field, How Our Solar System Actually Moves, Lanikea: Our Home Supercluster, Across the Universe, Quite Enough (on scale), and […]
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