Naming Our Home Supercluster of Galaxies

Astronomers define boundaries of our home supercluster and name ...

An international team of astronomers has defined the contours of the immense supercluster of galaxies that contains our own Milky Way.

Laniakea: Our home supercluster - YouTube

Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe ... supercluster and name ...

Laniakea Supercluster - Wikipedia

The Laniakea Supercluster or the Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other ...

Naming Our Home Supercluster of Galaxies - SpaceRef

The Milky Way resides in the outskirts of one such supercluster, whose extent has for the first time been carefully mapped using these new ...

Our Home Supercluster Gets a Map and a Name | IFLScience

Now for the first time, astronomers have constructed a map of the local universe. They've named our home supercluster Laniakea, Hawaiian for “ ...

Hawaii scientist maps and names Laniakea, our home supercluster ...

They have named the supercluster “Laniakea,” meaning “immense heaven” in Hawaiian. The paper explaining this work is the cover story of the ...

Laniakea: Our home supercluster - Nature

Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe.

2014 September 10 - Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster of Galaxies

The discoverers of Laniakea gave it a name that means "immense heaven" in Hawaiian. Tomorrow's picture: before the dawn · < | Archive | Index | ...

Hawaii scientist maps, names Laniakea, our home supercluster of ...

Hawaii scientist maps, names Laniakea, our home supercluster of galaxies ... This material is available primarily for archival purposes. Telephone ...

Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster - Sky & Telescope

Measurements of thousands of galaxies' motions toward and away from us reveal that the Milky Way sits on the edge of the gigantic Laniakea ...

Newly identified galactic supercluster is home to the Milky Way

Astronomers have determined that our Milky Way Galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, called Laniakea.

Meet Laniakea, Our Home Supercluster - Universe Today

But now astronomers are adding another line: the Laniakea Supercluster, which takes its name from the Hawaiin term “lani” meaning heaven and “ ...

Mapping Laniakea, Our Home Supercluster of Galaxies - R&D World

This Laniakea Supercluster is 500 million light-years in diameter and contains the mass of 1017 (a hundred quadrillion) suns in 100,000 galaxies ...

Our Home Supercluster, Laniakea, Is Dissolving Before Our Eyes

individual, isolated galaxies,. galactic groups,; and large galaxy clusters,. all connected by great cosmic filaments that trace out the cosmic ...

Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster | By Astronomy Nation - Facebook

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 ...

New Galactic Supercluster Map Shows Milky Way's 'Heavenly' Home

A new map of a giant group of galaxies known as the Laniakea Supercluster is giving scientists a revealing glimpse of our Milky Way galaxy's ...

The Boundaries of the Supercluster | astrobites

This paper gives new precision to the term “galaxy supercluster“. With a clear definition in hand, the authors also trace the bounds of our home supercluster.

Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea: Our home supercluster

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 ...

Scientists use the flow of galaxies to map our home supercluster for ...

Scientists use the flow of galaxies to map our home supercluster for the first time, giving us the boundaries of our "region" of the universe and naming it ...

Laniakea: Our home supercluster - Cosmic Watch

The supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way is 100 times bigger ... A team of astronomers have mapped the enormous region and given it the name ...