You are here. Feel small yet? Our galaxy is one of a 100,000 galaxies within the #Laniakea Supercluster. Laniakea, meaning "immense heaven", spans 250,000ly and holds between 100bn to 400bn stars.
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You are here. Feel small yet? Our galaxy is one of a 100,000 galaxies within the #Laniakea Supercluster. Laniakea, meaning "immense heaven", spans 250,000ly and holds between 100bn to 400bn stars.
Credit #DeepSky
#space #astronomy
The Heart of the Universe…
Laniakea, our home among the galaxies, stretches across hundreds of millions of light-years, its galaxies arranged along vast filaments of matter that converge towards gravitational centres, branching around immense cosmic voids.
PhD Physics
The Heart of the Universe…
Laniakea, our home among the galaxies, stretches across hundreds of millions of light-years, its galaxies arranged along vast filaments of matter that converge towards gravitational centres, branching around immense cosmic voids.
PhD Physics
- Observable Universe
- Perseus/Pegasus Filament
- Pisces/Cetus Supercluster Complex
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Virgo Supercluster
- Galaxy Group: Local Group
- Galaxy: Milky Way...
#traditionalastrology #astrology
- Observable Universe
- Perseus/Pegasus Filament
- Pisces/Cetus Supercluster Complex
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Virgo Supercluster
- Galaxy Group: Local Group
- Galaxy: Milky Way...
#traditionalastrology #astrology
The whole family is called Laniakea.
Hawaiian for "immense heaven."
520 million ly across. 100,000 galaxies.
Our home supercluster.
Source: physicstoday.aip.org
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The whole family is called Laniakea.
Hawaiian for "immense heaven."
520 million ly across. 100,000 galaxies.
Our home supercluster.
Source: physicstoday.aip.org
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Earth → Solar System → Milky Way → Virgo → Laniakea → Great Attractor
Each one contains the one before it.
Your full address: L² · M¹ · R¹ · S² · E■ · Meskerem 21
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Earth → Solar System → Milky Way → Virgo → Laniakea → Great Attractor
Each one contains the one before it.
Your full address: L² · M¹ · R¹ · S² · E■ · Meskerem 21
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You → Earth → Solar System → Milky Way → Virgo → Laniakea → Great Attractor.
Six nested layers.
From your body to a hidden gravity well — set as the origin of the map.
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You → Earth → Solar System → Milky Way → Virgo → Laniakea → Great Attractor.
Six nested layers.
From your body to a hidden gravity well — set as the origin of the map.
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Laniakea fades. Shapley dominates.
The basins of attraction merge into the wider cosmic web.
Filaments. Walls. Voids.
The structure is still there — but harder to see a centre.
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Laniakea fades. Shapley dominates.
The basins of attraction merge into the wider cosmic web.
Filaments. Walls. Voids.
The structure is still there — but harder to see a centre.
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A massive hidden gravity well.
It pulls our Local Group at 600 km/s.
In the Atlas, the GA is the origin. Z≈0.
We are falling toward it right now.
Source: iflscience.com
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A massive hidden gravity well.
It pulls our Local Group at 600 km/s.
In the Atlas, the GA is the origin. Z≈0.
We are falling toward it right now.
Source: iflscience.com
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A massive hidden gravity well.
It pulls our Local Group at 600 km/s.
In the Atlas, the GA is the origin. Z≈0.
We are falling toward it right now.
Source: iflscience.com
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A massive hidden gravity well.
It pulls our Local Group at 600 km/s.
In the Atlas, the GA is the origin. Z≈0.
We are falling toward it right now.
Source: iflscience.com
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L² · Laniakea.
Macro quadrants — 4321 stacked in:
Q1 · Q2 · Q3 · Q4.
Anti-clockwise around the Great Attractor at Z≈0.
~160 Mpc. ~100,000 galaxies. Our home basin.
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L² · Laniakea.
Macro quadrants — 4321 stacked in:
Q1 · Q2 · Q3 · Q4.
Anti-clockwise around the Great Attractor at Z≈0.
~160 Mpc. ~100,000 galaxies. Our home basin.
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L² · Laniakea.
Macro quadrants — 4321 stacked in:
Q1 · Q2 · Q3 · Q4.
Anti-clockwise around the Great Attractor at Z≈0.
~160 Mpc. ~100,000 galaxies. Our home basin.
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L² · Laniakea.
Macro quadrants — 4321 stacked in:
Q1 · Q2 · Q3 · Q4.
Anti-clockwise around the Great Attractor at Z≈0.
~160 Mpc. ~100,000 galaxies. Our home basin.
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The quadrant we live in.
Local Group · Virgo Cluster · Laniakea · Coma · M87* · Solar System · Earth E■ · Milky Way.
Not a puller. Not a pusher. The observer.
Ethiopian months in Q1: Sene · Hamle · Nehase · Pagumē.
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The quadrant we live in.
Local Group · Virgo Cluster · Laniakea · Coma · M87* · Solar System · Earth E■ · Milky Way.
Not a puller. Not a pusher. The observer.
Ethiopian months in Q1: Sene · Hamle · Nehase · Pagumē.
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The 4321 stack runs: Earth → Solar → Milky Way → Virgo → Laniakea → Dipole.
Six layers. Then it stops.
Not because the universe stops. Because causality stops.
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The 4321 stack runs: Earth → Solar → Milky Way → Virgo → Laniakea → Dipole.
Six layers. Then it stops.
Not because the universe stops. Because causality stops.
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Sloan — R 221 Mpc (6.8×10²¹ km)
Shapley — R 177 Mpc (5.5×10²¹ km)
Perseus-Pisces — R 150 Mpc (4.6×10²¹ km)
Hercules — R 129 Mpc (4.0×10²¹ km)
Laniakea — R 110 Mpc (3.4×10²¹ km)
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2305.02339
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Sloan — R 221 Mpc (6.8×10²¹ km)
Shapley — R 177 Mpc (5.5×10²¹ km)
Perseus-Pisces — R 150 Mpc (4.6×10²¹ km)
Hercules — R 129 Mpc (4.0×10²¹ km)
Laniakea — R 110 Mpc (3.4×10²¹ km)
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2305.02339
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As one sphere:
R 284 Mpc (8.8×10²¹ km)
D 568 Mpc (1.8×10²² km)
C 1,786 Mpc (5.5×10²² km)
But basins overlap.
📄 doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346802
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As one sphere:
R 284 Mpc (8.8×10²¹ km)
D 568 Mpc (1.8×10²² km)
C 1,786 Mpc (5.5×10²² km)
But basins overlap.
📄 doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346802
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→ Defined by velocity flow, not density.
→ Superclusters are NOT gravitationally bound — they disperse as the universe expands.
→ The 2026 kinematics paper is a preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.
Tully et al., Nature 513, 71–73 (2014)
Laniakea may be a flow, not a thing.
→ Defined by velocity flow, not density.
→ Superclusters are NOT gravitationally bound — they disperse as the universe expands.
→ The 2026 kinematics paper is a preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.
Tully et al., Nature 513, 71–73 (2014)
Laniakea may be a flow, not a thing.
Our home sector. The largest layer
→ Laniakea Supercluster (100,000 galaxies · 160 Mpc)
→ Virgo Cluster · M87* (first black hole imaged)
→ Shapley Concentration (densest local overdensity)
→ Sloan Great Wall (1.4 billion ly long)
→ Local Group · Coma
Our home sector. The largest layer
→ Laniakea Supercluster (100,000 galaxies · 160 Mpc)
→ Virgo Cluster · M87* (first black hole imaged)
→ Shapley Concentration (densest local overdensity)
→ Sloan Great Wall (1.4 billion ly long)
→ Local Group · Coma
The Great Attractor may not be a single object.
Laniakea may not be bound.
Voids are algorithm-dependent.
A thread — with the sources inside each post 🧵
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The Great Attractor may not be a single object.
Laniakea may not be bound.
Voids are algorithm-dependent.
A thread — with the sources inside each post 🧵
Walelign Bezabih · a4spacetimeatlas.netlify.app