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The Milky Way is part of the Local Group, which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.

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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 name of your cluster?

The Milky Way is part of 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".


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.


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.


After the milky way what comes next in Earth's galactic address?

After the Milky Way, the next galactic entity in Earth's address is the Local Group, which is a small group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way.


What is earth's supercluster?

The Earth is located within a supercluster called the Laniakea Supercluster. It is a vast system of galaxies that includes our Milky Way galaxy and thousands of others, bound together by gravity. The Laniakea Supercluster was defined in 2014 by astronomers studying the motions of galaxies in the universe.


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.


Earth's galaxy is milky way which is part of a galaxy cluster named what?

The Milky Way galaxy is part of the Local Group, which is a collection of several galaxies. The Local Group, in turn, is a part of the larger Virgo Supercluster.


Why earth is only found in milky way?

i think that there is a milky way


Who found the Milky Way?

No-one found it. The Milky Way was there to be seen before our ancestors were walking around Africa.


Where is the earth positioned in the universe?

The Earth is located in the Milky Way galaxy, in a spiral arm called the Orion Arm. Our solar system is about 25,000 light-years from the galactic center, and the Milky Way is just one of billions of galaxies in the observable universe.