New Map Locates Milky Way in Neighborhood of 100,000 Galaxies. Astronomers have defined a huge group of galaxies called a supercluster, now named Laniakea, with the Milky Way on its fringes.

But as Tully and his colleagues found, and as the map above shows, this Virgo Supercluster is just part of a much, much bigger supercluster — Laniakea. (The name, aptly enough, means ...

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 home in the universe. See it here.

Welcome to Laniakea, your home: Stunning new 3D map reveals gigantic super-cluster of galaxies that contains our own Milky Way. Word means 'immeasurable heaven' in Hawaiian ...

The Laniakea supercluster, described in a paper published in this week's Nature, is 500 million light-years in diameter and contains 100,000 galaxies - and we sit at the very edge of it.

This is literally true of the first example from his book, a map of the Laniakea Supercluster, a collection of more than ...

Meet Laniakea, our supercluster. From the Hawaiian words for "immeasurable heaven," this new data forced scientists to redraw the boundaries of the cosmic map, and it redefine our home supercluster.

Now for the first time, astronomers have constructed a map of the local universe. They’ve named our home supercluster Laniakea, Hawaiian for “immeasurable heaven.” The work was published in ...

The new map shows beautiful feathery strings linked together with the Milky Way galaxy placed on the edge of the newly named Laniakea supercluster, home to 100,000 other galaxies.

Jul 20, 2020: Astronomers map massive structure beyond Laniakea Supercluster (Nanowerk News) For the past decade, an international team of astronomers, led in part by Brent Tully at the University of ...

Scientists have redrawn the cosmic map of our corner of the universe, using new tools to define which galaxies interact with our own. The so-called supercluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way ...