Astronomers have mapped the cosmic watershed in which our Milky Way Galaxy is a droplet. The massive structure, which the research team dubs the Laniakea Supercluster, extends more than 500 million light-years and contains 100,000 large galaxies.

Camille M. Carlisle in: “Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster” at Sky and Telescoe, skyandtelescope.com, 3 September 2014

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