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What supercluster was the Milky Way considered to be in prior to the defining of Laniakea?
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What supercluster is the milky way is a part of?
The Virgo Supercluster, often just called the Local 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".
What is the name of your cluster?
The Milky Way is part of 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.
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.
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.
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.
How wide is the milky way?
The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light years across. The value may differ according to sources because the Milky Way does not have a defining boundary.
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.)
Why was there a milky way?
The Milky Way is located in the Local Clusterwhich contains about 30 galaxies. It is on of the biggest of them and it also has a twin galaxy called Andromeda. The local cluster is located a galaxy cloud called Canes Venaticiwhich together with 6 other galaxy clouds makes the Local Supercluster.
