supercluster
11Shapley Supercluster — The Shapley Supercluster (Shapley Concentration) is the largest concentration of galaxies in our nearby Universe that forms a gravitationally interacting unit, thereby pulling itself together instead of expanding with the Universe. It appears as… …
12Coma Supercluster — Map of the Coma Supercluster The Coma Supercluster (SCl 117) is a nearby supercluster of galaxies comprising the Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) and the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367). Located 300 million light years from Earth, it is in the center of the… …
13Perseus-Pisces Supercluster — The Perseus Pisces Supercluster is one of the largest known structures in the universe. Even at a distance of 250 million light years, this chain of galaxy clusters extends more than 40° across the northern winter sky. The Perseus Pisces… …
14Horologium Supercluster — The Horologium Supercluster (also known as Horologium Reticulum Supercluster ) is a massive supercluster, about 550 million light years across and has a mass of 1017 solar masses. The nearest part of the supercluster is 700 million light years… …
15Pavo-Indus Supercluster — The Pavo Indus Supercluster is a neighboring supercluster to the Local Supercluster containing Local Group, a group of galaxies that contains our home galaxy, Milky Way galaxy. The Supercluster contains four main clusters, Abell 3656, Abell 3698 …
16Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster — The Hydra Centaurus Supercluster, or the Hydra and Centaurus superclusters, is a supercluster in two parts and the closest neighbour of Milky Way s Virgo Supercluster.The cluster includes four large galaxy clusters in the Centaurus part *A3526… …
17Local Supercluster — noun /ˌloʊkl̩ ˈsupɚˌklʌstɚ/ The supercluster that includes the Milky Way galaxy. Syn: LS, LSC, Virgo Supercluster, VirSC, Vir SC See Also: Local Arm, Local Bubble, Local Cluster, Local Filament, Local Fluff, Local Galaxy, Local Group, Local Space …
18Virgo Supercluster — noun /ˈvɚɡoʊ ˈsu.pɚˈklʌstɚ/ The supercluster that includes the Milky Way galaxy. Syn: Local Supercluster, LS, LSC, Virgo SC, VirSC, Vir SC See Also: Virgo, Virgo A, Virgo Cluster, Virgo Constellation, Virgo Dwarf, Virgo Dwarf Galaxy, Virgo… …
19Local Supercluster — The supercluster of galaxies to which our Local Group belongs …
The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology
20Large-scale structure of the cosmos — In physical cosmology, the term large scale structure refers to the characterization of observable distributions of matter and light on the largest scales (typically on the order of billions of light years). Sky surveys and mappings of the… …
