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Laniakea Supercluster is the galaxy supercluster that contains the Milky Way and about 100,000 other nearby galaxies. It was defined in 2014 by a new method based on galaxy velocities and has four subparts: Virgo, Hydra–Centaurus, Great Attractor, and Antlia Wall.
A clickable map of the nearby circa one-sixth outer sector of the galaxy, thus clearly showing the Local Arm (Orion Arm) and neighboring arms - as well as the Great Orion Nebula (as a very luminous feature of the less bright Orion molecular cloud complex) and broad-clouds North America Nebula (and Pelican Nebula) which is an intrinsic part of the Radcliffe wave.
Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who pioneered extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. He discovered the expansion of the universe, proved that many nebulae were galaxies, and established the Hubble law and the Hubble sequence.
Chandra is a NASA space telescope launched in 1999 to study X-ray sources in the universe. It is named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist, and is one of the Great Observatories along with Hubble, Compton and Spitzer.
Hubble is a space telescope launched in 1990 and named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. It observes in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum and has made many breakthroughs in astrophysics.
Scientists make most detailed ever infrared map of the Milky Way, changing view of our galaxy. Andrew Griffin. September 26, 2024 at 8:01 AM (The Independent)
A science museum and activity center in Downey, California, dedicated to space exploration and the Space Shuttle Columbia. Learn about the history, exhibits, and events of this Challenger Learning Center and National Memorial to the Columbia crew.
A major astronomical project that imaged and spectroscopically studied over 35% of the sky and 4 million objects. The survey data, released in several phases, provide insights into the structure, evolution and history of the universe.