Key facts
- Category
- Large-scale structures
- Object class
- Large-scale cosmic neighborhood
- Scale fact
- 1 billion lydiameter of mapped region
- Composition
- Galaxy superclusters, filaments, voids, galaxies, dark matter, intergalactic gas
Local Superclusters Region
1 billion lydiameter of mapped region
Details
This map shows the large-scale cosmic neighborhood within a radius of 500 million light-years around the Milky Way. Instead of a single object, it represents the nearby network of galaxy superclusters, filaments, and voids that make up our local portion of the cosmic web.
This record is a map volume centered on the Milky Way, not a discrete astronomical object. Its one-billion-light-year diameter comes from the chosen radius of the map and contains parts of the nearby cosmic web: galaxy clusters and superclusters linked by filaments around underdense voids.
The apparent boundaries of individual structures depend on the survey and clustering method. The image is therefore a geographic overview of galaxy density, not a photograph of one connected body.
Links
- Universe journey
- Cosmic web
Size neighbors
Objects near Local Superclusters Region on the scale
On the logarithmic size axis, Local Superclusters Region falls between BOSS Great Wall and Observable Universe. The band uses nearby Large-scale structures records.
Shared physical scale
765million ly
Sources
References for Local Superclusters Region
Measurements and descriptive context are compiled by the Scale of Space team from the references below. If you find an error, please let us know.
- Local Superclusters Region — Wikipedia
- Visual reference: Wikimedia Commons (Based on work by Richard Powell, CC BY-SA 2.5)
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Scale of Space is a scroll-based journey through the universe, placing objects on a single logarithmic scale so you can compare size across an unbroken range.
Guides explain selected parts of that range, while focused views filter the objects by subject.