Laniakea – Planeta.com

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Laniakea means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian. It is also the galaxy supercluster home to the Milky Way, the Solar System and Earth. It was defined in September 2014, when a group of astronomers led by R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii published a new way of defining superclusters according to the relative velocities of galaxies.

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📷 cosmicdustpw: This is Laniakea, our home supercluster. That red dot is the Miky Way galaxy. The large feather structure is about 100,000 galaxies bound together by mutual gravity as one as it moves thru the universe amongst an estimated 10… https://t.co/tN7qvagvLE
— SpaceTime (@stuartgary) July 24, 2019

Laniakea means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian.
It's also the name given to our newly defined home supercluster.http://t.co/WaObatKWhC
— Joel Werner (@joelwerner) September 4, 2014

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