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 ...

Orbits of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. Our home Milky Way galaxy (MW, yellow) and our companion Andromeda galaxy (M31, red) are participating in a downward flow away from a vast underdense ...

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Our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a much larger formation, the local Supercluster structure, which contains several massive galaxy clusters and thousands of individual galaxies. Due to its ...

DIY: Why spend nearly half a million dollars on a used supercomputer when you can build your own miniature version at home? That's exactly what one YouTuber recently did and the end result is quite ...