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The Virgo Supercluster, often just called the Local Supercluster
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What is the name of your cluster?
The Milky Way is part of the Virgo Supercluster.
What supercluster is the Milky Way Found in?
The Milky Way is part of the Local Group, which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.
The earth moon system is a part of what?
The Solar System contains the Earth-Moon system. The Milky Way galaxy contains the Solar System. The Virgo supercluster contains the Milky Way galaxy. The Universe contains the Virgo supercluster.
What is the milky ways galaxy supercluster?
Until now, the Milky Way was believed to be one galaxy in the 2,000 that make up what's known as the Virgo "supercluster".
After the milky way what comes next in Earth's galactic address?
Virgo Supercluster
Is our local supercluster 50 million light years across?
The Virgo Supercluster (in which the Milky Way is located) is about 200 million light years across.
Where is the earth positioned in the universe?
The Earth is 93,000,000 miles from the Sun, on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, in the Virgo supercluster.
Is Jupiter bigger than the local supercluster?
No, not at all. Jupiter is part of the Solar System, which is part of the Milky Way galaxy, which is part of the Local Group (of Galaxies), which is part of the Local Superclusters. Jupiter's mass is nothing when compared to the mass of Superclusters.
What is the Milky Way orbiting?
There is no larger rotational group for galaxies. The Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy, as part of the Local Group, are moving generally in one direction, toward an unidentified central mass in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. (This may be a gravitational effect of the Shapley Supercluster.)
What was shapleys contribution to astronomy?
In 1918 he used Cepheid variables to estimate the size of the Milky Way. The Shapley Supercluster of galaxies is named after him as well.
Where in the universe is our solar system and milky way?
Milky Way: About 100,000 light-years in diameter Universe: Unknown, but the observable Universe has a diameter of about 92 billion light-years. Solar System: There are different definitions for the limits of the Solar System; if you include the Oort Cloud, you would have a diameter of about 4 light-years. That's a radius of about 2 light years, taking you about half way to the nearest star. With many other commonly used definitions, the "Solar System" is much smaller.
Is Pluto a part of the Milky Way?
Pluto is a part of our solar system, and our solar system is a part of the Milky Way Galaxy. Thus: Pluto is a part of the Milky Way.
