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 ...

This image shows a slice of the Laniakea Supercluster in the supergalactic equatorial plane -- an imaginary plane containing many of the most massive clusters in this structure. The colors represent ...

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Explore the latest space news as we delve into the groundbreaking discoveries made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) regarding the Laniakea Supercluster and the ancient galaxies of the early ...

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for ...

Astro Bob blog: Milky Way settles into its new home, the Laniakea Supercluster The name fits so well - Laniakea. It means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian, and now it's home. I just had a gut feeling the ...