Map of the Universe
Laniakea
A view about 850 million light-years across · Universe
Laniakea is the supercluster that contains the Milky Way, defined in 2014 by the way galaxies flow toward the Great Attractor. It is about 520 million light-years across; the map marks it with a schematic circle because its real boundary is irregular.
On the map at this scale
Galaxies
Galaxy groups, clusters and superclusters
- Centaurus Cluster
- Coma Cluster
- Coma Supercluster
- Hercules Cluster
- Hercules Supercluster
- Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Leo Cluster
- Norma Cluster
- Ophiuchus Cluster
- Pavo–Indus Supercluster
Walls, voids and the cosmic web
Regions, structures and cosmic epochs
Every scale, from Earth outwards
- Earth and Moon 0.008 AU
- Inner planets 4 AU
- Jupiter's orbit 14 AU
- Neptune and the Kuiper belt 110 AU
- Heliopause and Voyagers 400 AU
- Oort cloud 4 light-years
- Nearest stars 24 light-years
- 100 light-years 220 light-years
- 1,000 light-years 2,400 light-years
- Local Arm 12,000 light-years
- Galactic centre 13,000 light-years
- Milky Way 160,000 light-years
- Magellanic Clouds 520,000 light-years
- Satellite galaxies 2 million light-years
- Local Group 10 million light-years
- Council of Giants 36 million light-years
- Virgo Supercluster 230 million light-years
- Laniakea 850 million light-years
- Nearby superclusters 2.3 billion light-years
- Cosmic web 11 billion light-years
- Observable universe 100 billion light-years