Not coming to your car GPS anytime soon, but still a nice map. The 'map' of our universe is getting a little bit more detailed.
The dot on the picture is our galaxy, potentially marked as 'mostly harmless.'
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Showing posts with label milky way. Show all posts
Thursday, September 7, 2017
42! [Just a map of the universe]
Not coming to your car GPS anytime soon, but still a nice map. The 'map' of our universe is getting a little bit more detailed.
The dot on the picture is our galaxy, potentially marked as 'mostly harmless.'
Friday, April 8, 2016
Laniakea Supercluster
In case you weren't aware (like me) of the recent change in the map of our local universe...
Laniakea supercluster containsour galaxy the Milky Way, and 100,000 other nearby galaxies. Let's read that last number again: one hundred thousand (galaxies).
It looks like this:
Here is the link to the article from 2014 that introduced the idea:
And, here is an image of other nearby superclusters:
Laniakea supercluster containsour galaxy the Milky Way, and 100,000 other nearby galaxies. Let's read that last number again: one hundred thousand (galaxies).
It looks like this:
Here is the link to the article from 2014 that introduced the idea:
And, here is an image of other nearby superclusters:
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