09-03-2014, 09:46 AM
Seeing the Milky Way can provide some perspective for how small our world is within the galaxy.
I just watched a video about The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies, a map of our corner of the universe, where the Milky Way itself is but a small dot in the supercluster network.
Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space. Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home supercluster and name it Laniakea, which means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyyRwxpHo
I just watched a video about The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies, a map of our corner of the universe, where the Milky Way itself is but a small dot in the supercluster network.
Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space. Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home supercluster and name it Laniakea, which means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyyRwxpHo
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