The Laniakea Supercluster (Our Home)

Very cool. It reminds me of the neurons and synapses of the human brain. _{It also makes me feel very very small.}

Very Cool in fact.. I passed it around a bit more....................

a joe in texas

Where did the name "Laniakea" came into this? I was born and raised in Hawaii, and have friends that live at Laniakea, and surfed it extensively in the 60's and 70's…Mac

Hi C-Mac,

The name is Hawaiian for "immeasurable heaven" or less grandly "wide sky". Here is the Wiki explanation of why it got that name. In my blog above I didn't mention an astronomer from the University of Hawaii who was involved in this work (I didn't know), but it seems one was prominently involved. So that should help explain why it got a Hawaiian name.

-R

Thank you, Sir!!

You are adding "Lustre" to our "Cluster"!!

Thanks

And imagine that this all came to be after hundreds of billions of years of random activity by chance. Oh yeh, that's believable!

All we can see and what we haven't yet developed the ability to see is because of a Designer. There was a Creator, if not, what is here is here by design or there would be chaos and destruction. A few degrees closer to the sun and we would burn up, a few degrees farther away and we would freeze. The Universe stays in place because that is how it was designed. It is magnificent and incomprehendable!

If that tiny dot is our galaxy, it shows how incredibly immense the universe is. If its size isn't infinite, it's close enough for practical purposes.