Galaxy orbits in the local supercluster Researchers have constructed the galaxies' motions from 13 billion years in the past to the present day Date: December 8, 2017 Source: University of Hawaii ...

The Local Group of galaxies—a collection that includes the Milky Way, Andromeda and a few dozen smaller galactic companions—moves at about 600 kilometers per second with respect to the ...

Our Local Supercluster contains at least 100 different galaxy groups and stretches across 110 million light years. Up till now we thought it was the biggest structure of which the Milky Way was a ...

The Milky Way supposedly lies in the immense Laniākea basin, but even that is now thought to be part of a bigger basin of (gravitational) attraction known as the Shapley Supercluster. This ...

In the local universe, the Virgo and Laniakea Superclusters reign supreme, the latter stretching some 500 million light-years across and containing about 100,000 galaxies, including our own.

Next to the physics department, the University of Helsinki’s Kumpula campus hosts a large statue showing the distribution of galaxies in the Local Supercluster.

Another supercluster from the early Universe that was detected by the South Pole Telescope in 2010, weighs in at around 800 trillion Suns and holds hundreds of galaxies.

A team of astronomers from Maryland, Hawaii, Israel and France has produced the most detailed map ever of the orbits of galaxies in our extended local neighborhood, showing the past motions of ...