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Meaning of laniakea by Felipe Lorenzo del Río





Felipe Lorenzo del Río

laniakea
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For astronomy enthusiasts it is our biggest home. Hawaiian for "immeasurable sky": A supercluster of about 100 . 000 galaxies among which is our Camino de Santiago, with a diameter of about 500 million light years and with a mass of about one hundred thousand quadrillion suns like ours. It was defined and named by a group of astronomers in 2014.

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