Laniakea: Our home supercluster

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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.

Read the research paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13674

 

[HumbleTraveler]

Very awesome. The scale is so unfathomable.

 

[Cognitive Heart]

Very welcoming video. The pure, attracting mass scale it all really is! Thank you. :thumb_up:

 

[Adjhart]

This was awesome!

Thanks for the post :thumb_up:

 

[Nathanial.Dread]

I wonder what's going on at that Great Attractor.

Elder Gods?

Next time someone loads up a GVG, maybe see if you can't point your consciousness in it's general direction. See what's going on in there. :d

Blessings
~ND

 

[anrchy]

So is there a great Detractor? This is extremely interesting to me and now im finally able to visualize a larger portion of the universe.

Those super clusters sure behave a lot like oceanic current.

 

[endlessness]

Mind....Blown... :shock:

 

[Felnik]

Absolutely amazing !!