The name fits so well - Laniakea. It means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian, and now it's home. In the biggest sense of 'big picture' you can imagine. Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's ...

Home, supercluster home. Astronomers studying the skies have found that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of an enormous supercluster of galaxies that has been named Laniakea, which comes from the ...

Astronomers have mapped the Milky Way's position to the outskirts of a supercluster of galaxies, newly dubbed Laniakea, meaning "Immense Heaven". Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

The Laniakea Supercluster is a newly-recognized supercluster of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way Galaxy. The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia was used to study the outer boundaries of ...

A data visualization of the motions of galaxies in structures called basins of attraction. The Milky Way is the red dot. Credit: University of Hawai'i If you want to pinpoint your place in the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for ...

(Nanowerk News) For the past decade, an international team of astronomers, led in part by Brent Tully at the University of Hawai'i Institute for Astronomy, has been mapping the distribution of ...

Your house. On your street. In your city. In your state. In your country. On planet Earth. In the solar system. In the Milky Way. Shall I go on? Thanks to a new map, I can: our Local Group, a cluster ...

This image shows a slice of the Laniakea Supercluster in the supergalactic equatorial plane -- an imaginary plane containing many of the most massive clusters in this structure. The colors represent ...

Scientists have redrawn the cosmic map of our corner of the universe, using new tools to define which galaxies interact with our own. The so-called supercluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way ...

Astro Bob blog: Milky Way settles into its new home, the Laniakea Supercluster The name fits so well - Laniakea. It means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian, and now it's home. I just had a gut feeling the ...