2016年6月19日 星期日

How Astronomers Found Our Cosmic Address

Recent studies of the motions of thousands of nearby galaxies have revealed that the Milky Way's home supercluster is far larger than previously thought. Astronomers call this newfound supersized supercluster “Laniakea.”
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The Milky Way turns out to be part of a massive supercluster of galaxies that forms one of the largest known structures in the universe. This discovery is only the beginning of a new effort to map the cosmos
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