Laniakea: Our home supercluster (video)

[Fredrik]

I just saw this video and wanted to share it. It contains some pretty awesome plots of the motion of galaxies in our neighborhood.



Here's a longer video made by the same person:

 

[davenn]

Thanks for that Fredrik

Gosh it must have been 20 odd yrs ago when I first heard of the great attractor
Didn't really know what they were talking about way back then ... all a lot clearer now

Dave