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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown ...

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Our Milky Way galaxy is just one part of a huge region of the Universe that includes what astronomers call a supercluster of galaxies. Now, that region of space has its own map and a name, "Laniakea." ...

(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 ...

The large-scale structure of the Universe is an intricate network of clusters, filaments and superclusters of galaxies, together with cosmic voids that are almost empty of galaxies. Superclusters are ...

Cape Canaveral, Florida: The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for "immeasurable ...

The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for “immeasurable heaven.” The discovery, ...