Super clusters and the great attractor

• Tags: #[[filaments and walls]]

A new study in Nature finds that the Milky Way is part of a broader supercluster of 100,000 galaxies known as Laniakea.

• Brad Plumer, This is the most detailed map yet of our place in the universe

• Each dot is a galaxy. Many of them are falling into The Great Attractor
• Here is a great video of the observable universe by by Hélène Courtois, Daniel Pomarède, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, and Denis Courtois.