The "Laniakea supercluster" is the golden structure with ~100'000 galaxies
The red dot is the "Milky Way", our home, which contains ~300 billion stars
in Hawaiian : lani = sky, heaven
akea = wide, immeasurable
"Laniakea supercluster" = "immeasurable heaven"
This 3D image was developed by R. Brent Tully, University of Hawaii, USA, and his team
Audio : Across the Milky Way by Timothy Lewis from Epidemic Sounds

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