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A new map of the Milky Way's cosmic neighborhood shows where our galaxy lives in relation to thousands of others nearby, with scientists giving the newly discovered "supercluster" of galaxies a ...
and other galaxies around us in the Virgo Supercluster, which contained some 100 galaxy groups. But as Tully and his colleagues found, and as the map above shows, this Virgo Supercluster is just ...
Here’s how it works. A new cosmic map is giving scientists an unprecedented look at the boundaries for the giant supercluster that is home to Earth's own Milky Way galaxy and many others.
In a study published December 4 in The Astrophysical Journal, an international team of astronomers produced the most detailed map ever of ... structure of our Local Supercluster of galaxies ...
Another gravitational pivot point in intergalactic space that affects the motion of our galaxy – and the supercluster containing ... as astronomers continue to map out and capture more details ...
The Milky Way galaxy was long thought to be a member of the Virgo supercluster ... some of the earliest galaxy surveys that attempted to map the nearby portions of the universe.
Joydeep Bagchi at Savitribai Phule Pune University in India and his colleagues found the supercluster using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a map of galaxies in the night sky.
A new study from the NASA New Horizons mission team at the Southwest Research Institute have resulted in a first-of-its-type map from the Milky Way galaxy in an ultraviolet wavelength, revealing ...
Interestingly, the Virgo Supercluster (and the Local Group and Milky Way galaxy) appears to be moving ... our cosmic surveys may not yet be large enough to map the full extent of these immense ...
Shall I go on? Thanks to a new map, I can: our Local Group, a cluster of more than 50 galaxies, is part of a newly defined, 100,000-galaxy supercluster called Laniakea, from the Hawaiian words ...
By using the GBT and other radio telescopes to map the velocities ... Group of galaxies and other galaxy clusters. Within the boundaries of the Laniakea Supercluster, galaxy motions are directed ...