Earth’s new address: ‘Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea’0

• From Around the Web, Space
• June 13, 2015

June 13, 2015 (Source: Nature.com) Analysis of galaxies shows local supercluster to be 100 times larger than previously thought. The supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way is 100 times bigger in volume and mass than previously thought, a team of astronomers says. They have mapped the enormous region and given it the name Laniakea —