Laniakea: Our home supercluster
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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 means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian. Read the research paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13674 Read Nature's news story: http://www.nature.com/news/earth-s-new-address-solar-system-milky-way-laniakea-1.15819
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الله
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Make Laniakea Great Again
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Cool stuff, but it needs more racism and xenophobia.
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So big and so small at the same time... We just are in the here and the now
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wicked, i want to explore universe, i dont give a shit of this small useless got called earth, i'm sure the alines call this garbage "Arrrg" lol
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"The galaxy rotation problem is the discrepancy between observed galaxy rotation curves and the theoretical prediction, assuming a centrally dominated mass associated with the observed luminous material." (Wikipedia)
We cannot explain how a galaxy moves, but pretend to understand the present and future movements of millions of galaxies and define a supercluster? Please anybody explain it... -
Supercluster + Supercluster= Clusterfuck
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Amazing video. Thank you very much
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Laniakea wars....
cool,, the great atractor is probalby the center point where all meet in the future since some galalxies will probalby get destroyed in the big war...
the universe is huge,,, these conglomerates of galalxies looks like neurons,, we are atoms in the planet, and universe, hehe -
I would reckon these galaxies after their internal 'current' motion, move out and join another supercluster, thus each clusters dynamics is constantly changing with exchanging galaxies. The momentum must be congruent as the clusters 'contained' galaxies act to acquire ones from the neighbors. Since the Galaxies are merging with each other also, during trajectories too, the super clusters membership pool is reducing. Is this whole exchange cycle likely slowing, constant or speeding?
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hello fantastic channel got a new subscriber
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I need to update my address:
Djerba, Tunisia , North Africa, Earth, Solar Sys, Milky Way, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea.. -
According to it, there must be millions of planets with life and thousands of planets with inteligent life. interesting, very interesting, surely we are not alone
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beautiful
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l would like a better video of the three d map of clusters wihhout lines. to learn positons and mames of neighbour clusters.
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Absolutely beautiful.
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WHO'S HERE BECAUSE OF OUR SPACEPOPE ? \o/
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So, this means that space is only expanding in certain areas? and in other areas is contracting?
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Thanks. now i feel even more smaller. ehh. makes it twice as interesting i guess :>
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