LANIAKEA SUPERCLUSTER_ The Milky Way Is Just a Tiny Part of This
🌌 "The Milky Way is a speck. A single point of light among 100,000 other galaxies. And that's just our home supercluster."The Laniakea Supercluster is 500 million light-years across and contains 100,000 galaxies.[citation:4] Its name means "immeasurable heavens" in Hawaiian. We sit on one fringe, pulled toward the Great Attractor—a gravitational anomaly we can barely see. And recent studies suggest Laniakea itself may live inside an even larger basin of attraction, possibly 10 times its volume.[citation:1] You are not just a speck. You're a speck within a speck.
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