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.

Laniakea contains more than 100,000 galaxies, stretches 500 million light years across, and looks something like this (the Milky Way is just a speck located on one of its fringes on the right ...

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 ...

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.

The new maps show that the Milky Way galaxy, along with the Virgo cluster and some 100,000 other galaxies, is gravitationally sailing in the same gigantic cosmic pool, named Laniakea.

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 article was originally published with the title “ Mapping Laniakea, the Milky Way's Cosmic Home [Video] ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 315 No. 1 (July 2016) doi:10.1038 ...

"The Laniakea supercluster encompasses 13 major galaxy clusters, ... Tully and colleagues developed a detailed three dimensional map showing how galaxies are gravitationally affected by other ...

There are many of these basins in the universe, including Laniakea. Astronomers are working to survey them more precisely, ...

The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for “immeasurable heaven.” The discovery ...