The Virgo Supercluster, often just called the Local 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.

A supercluster is a group of galaxy clusters, each of which in turn is a group of galaxies.

Our local cluster is known as - well "The Local Cluster", Not very imaginative I know.

It is part of the the Virgo Supercluster or Local Supercluster.

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A supercluster.

The Virgo Supercluster (in which the Milky Way is located) is about 200 million light years across.

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 Milky Way is part of the Virgo Supercluster.

A galactic supercluster.

Every single type.

It is the Saraswati supercluster.

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

Yes it is. A supercluster has up to 50 galaxies where the local group contains up to 30.

The local group cluster is actually located within the Local (or Virgo) supercluster.

That's called a supercluster.

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.

A galactic supercluster, such as the Virgo Supercluster which contains the Milky Way, is larger than our galaxy. It is a collection of multiple galaxies held together by gravity.

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.

There is no definite size, as anything on this scale and distance is liable to change and distortion.

However, it has generally been estimated that the Virgo Supercluster is at least 110 million light years across.

For comparison our Galaxy is only 100,000 light years across and the Sun is only 8 light minutes from us.

See related link for more information.

Barbara Ann Williams has written:

'The distribution and HI properties of spiral galaxies in the direction of the Coma/A1367 supercluster'

Super clusters do not have defined boundaries, not a defined shape. A ballpark figure would put the diameter at about 100 million light years, but extending to about 250 million light years at the extreme.

See related link for a pictorial of the cluster

That sounds like a galaxy. It could also be a galaxy cluster or a supercluster.

Actually, a supercluster can contain millions to billions of stars, along with gas, dust, and dark matter. Superclusters are some of the largest known structures in the universe, made up of numerous galaxies and galaxy clusters bound together by gravity. They can span hundreds of millions of light-years.

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.

the Virgo cluster of galaxies is about 60 million light years away from the Sun.

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.

No, The Local Group is not. The local group is just an small cluster of a few galaxies on the outskirts of the Local Super-cluster which the Virgo cluster is in the center of it.

No, not at all. Jupiter is part of the Solar System, which is part of the Milky Way galaxy, which is part of the Local Group (of Galaxies), which is part of the Local Superclusters. Jupiter's mass is nothing when compared to the mass of Superclusters.

Well, let's see . . .

Each [supercluster] is made of several [clusters of galaxies].

Each [cluster of galaxies] is made of several [galaxies].

Each [galaxy] is made of several [stars] ... maybe as many as several hundred billion of them in some galaxies.

The galaxy that WE live in is estimated to consist of somewhere between 200 - 400 billion stars.

The [sun] is one of them.

So it looks like the sun is probably a little smaller than a supercluster.

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Here's another way to put a sharp point on it:

A beam of light takes about [4.6 seconds] to travel a distance equal to the diameter of the sun.

A beam of light takes about [4.4 YEARS] to travel from here to the NEAREST star,
out of the 200 - 400 billion stars in our galaxy,
out of the several galaxies in our cluster,
out of the several clusters in our supercluster.

So the distances involved in galaxies are obviously more longer than the size of the sun.

A supercluster is a collection of clusters. There is no defined amount of clusters.

A cluster could have up to 10 trillion stars, so a supercluster could contain around a quadtrillion stars.

Earth's full universal address is: Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Universe.

There is no galaxy called Lynx.

There is however a Lynx Arc Supercluster located about 12 billion light years away.

Even at the speed of light it is doubtful you could ever reach it due to the expansion of the Universe which is currently exceeding the speed of light.

The nearest cluster of galaxies is the "Virgo Cluster" discovered by Charles Messier in 1784. The Virgo cluster lies at/near the center of the Supercluster we belong to - also called the "Virgo Supercluster".

Our "Local Group" (comprising of The Milky way, Andromeda, and another 25-30 smaller galaxies) is part of the Virgo Cluster.

The center of the Virgo cluster is at a distance of about 18 Mpc (Mega parsecs) approx 60 Million lightyears from us [which translates to a 'redshift' of only z=0.004]. Ain't the universe huge?

Note: There are quite a few 'groups of galaxies' between us and the center of Virgo Cluster.

There is no larger rotational group for galaxies. The Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy, as part of the Local Group, are moving generally in one direction, toward an unidentified central mass in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. (This may be a gravitational effect of the Shapley Supercluster.)

The Milky Way is located in the Local Clusterwhich contains about 30 galaxies. It is on of the biggest of them and it also has a twin galaxy called Andromeda. The local cluster is located a galaxy cloud called Canes Venaticiwhich together with 6 other galaxy clouds makes the Local Supercluster.

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.

Moon < Planet < Star < Supernova < Cluster < Supercluster

The universe can be organized in various scales:

1. Planetary system (e.g. our solar system)
2. Galaxy (e.g. Milky Way)
3. Galaxy cluster (group of galaxies)
4. Supercluster (groups of galaxy clusters)
5. Observable universe (everything we can potentially observe)

The solar system orbits around the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

The Milky Way orbits with a number of other galaxies around the center of our galactic cluster, called the Local Group.

The Local Group rotates in the Virgo Supercluster (a cluster of galactic clusters).

It is unclear if superclusters rotate around anything.

Scientists believe that the Boomerang Nebula is one of the coldest known places in the universe, with temperatures reaching close to absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius). It is located about 5,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

Yes, our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of a group of galaxies called the Local Group, which is moving through space. The Local Group is also part of a larger structure called the Virgo Supercluster, which is itself moving within the expanding universe. So, in a sense, our galaxy is orbiting within the larger cosmic structure of the universe.

Superclusters are very large groupings of smaller galactic clusters. Superclusters are the largest known structures in the Universe, and since they are not gravitationally bound, they partake in the Hubble expansion. The Milky Way Galaxy is located in the Local Group, which in turn is located in the Virgo Supercluster.

Milky Way: About 100,000 light-years in diameter

Universe: Unknown, but the observable Universe has a diameter of about 92 billion light-years.

Solar System: There are different definitions for the limits of the Solar System; if you include the Oort Cloud, you would have a diameter of about 4 light-years.

That's a radius of about 2 light years, taking you about half way to the nearest star.

With many other commonly used definitions, the "Solar System" is much smaller.

The force of gravity, which acts over immense distances, keeps the solar system's components in fairly stable orbits around a common center of gravity. The solar system itself is constantly moving - as the sun is in orbit around the galactic nucleus, and also the galaxy bound in a galactic cluster and larger supercluster, all of which possess intrinsic motions.

The Milky Way Galaxy is located within the Local Group of the Virgo Supercluster.

See related link for a pictorial of our location (Red arrow)

Earth belongs to the Milky Way galaxy, which is a spiral galaxy containing billions of stars. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group, a collection of galaxies that includes the Andromeda galaxy among others. The Local Group is itself part of the Virgo Supercluster, a large cluster of galaxies in the observable universe.

The Andromeda Galaxy is a member of the Local Group, which is a small cluster of galaxies that includes our Milky Way galaxy and a few dozen other smaller galaxies. The Local Group is part of the Virgo Supercluster, which is a larger structure of galaxies in the universe.