(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 ...

A slice of the Laniakea Supercluster in the supergalactic equatorial plane. Individual galaxies are shown as white dots. If you are asked where you live, you'll name your neighborhood -- or town. But ...

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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 ...

One of the great unsolved mysteries of cosmology is known as the Hubble tension. It stems from our inability to pin down the precise rate of cosmic expansion. There are several ways to calculate this ...

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 ...