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This is the most detailed map yet of our place in the universe
We know that the Earth and the solar system are located in the Milky Way galaxy. But how, exactly, does the Milky Way fit in among the billions of other galaxies in the known universe? In a fascinating new study for Nature, a team of scientists mapped thousands of other galaxies in our immediate vicinity, and discovered that the Milky Way is part of a truly massive "supercluster" of galaxies that they named Laniakea.
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