UH Astronomer Maps Milky Way's Galaxy Supercluster


Laniakea Supercluster Preview from Daniel Pomarède on Vimeo.


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"The Laniakea supercluster is 500 million light-years in diameter and contains the mass of a hundred quadrillion suns in 100,000 galaxies, the researchers found." (Engle)

The structure of galactic superclusters is better understood, thanks to the telescopes on the big island.