Measuring the Immeasurable Heavens

In this video from Nature, we are introduced to Laniakea, the incomprehensibly vast supercluster of galaxies of which our own Milky Way is an infinitesimal part. Astounding.

“Laniakea,” by the way, is Hawaiian for “immeasurable heavens.” Well, they measured them.

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