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What is the meaning of Laniakea?
immense heaven
They have named the supercluster “Laniakea,” meaning “immense heaven” in Hawaiian.
Is Laniakea real?
We call this supercluster “Laniakea,” the Hawaiian word for immense heaven. It links up our own massive cluster, Centaurus, the Great Attractor and many others, and contains over 100,000 galaxies total. But there’s a problem with not only Laniakea, but with the idea of a supercluster in general: it isn’t real.
Is there anything bigger than Laniakea?
They have discovered an immense structure beyond Laniakea, an immense supercluster of galaxies, including our own. Astronomers have dubbed the newly identified structure the South Pole Wall. The South Pole Wall lies immediately beyond the Laniakea Supercluster, wrapping the region like an arm.
How wide is Laniakea?
500 million light years
Laniakea Supercluster/Diameter
Where is laniakea in the universe?
RA 10h 32m 0s | Dec -46° 0′ 0″
Laniakea Supercluster/Coordinates
What is the most massive thing in the universe?
The largest known ‘object’ in the Universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. This is a ‘galactic filament’, a vast cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity, and it’s estimated to be about 10 billion light-years across!
Are we in the Virgo supercluster?
The supercluster we live in is known as the Virgo Supercluster. It’s an enormous collection of more than a million galaxies, stretching across a region of space 110 million light-years across. Our Virgo Cluster is actually an outlying group of the Virgo Supercluster.
Are we in laniakea or Virgo?
We are in the Virgo Supercluster which is, in turn, part of the larger Laniakea Supercluster.
What is the name of our galactic supercluster?
Laniakea
And, like most galactic groups and clusters, we’re a small part of a larger structure containing over 100,000 galaxies: a supercluster. Ours is named Laniakea: the Hawaiian word for “immense heaven.”