The Milky Way Is Just a Dot: Inside the Laniakea Supercluster 🌌🤯 #Laniakea #MilkyWay #UniverseScale #CosmicWeb #Astronomy #SpaceFacts #GalaxyCluster #Shorts #FPY The universe is far larger and more interconnected than we can truly imagine. 🌌 What we call home—the Milky Way galaxy—is only a tiny red dot when viewed within the Laniakea Supercluster, one of the largest known structures in the observable universe. Laniakea, meaning “immense heaven” in Hawaiian, is a colossal web containing around

Laniakea • Our Home Supercluster 5.3.2022 • Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space. Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home supercluster and name it Laniakea, which mea

The giant Laniakea supercluster explained in 1 minute. | Cosmoknowledge