The Ladder of Scale · structure
Local Supercluster (Virgo)
Supercluster · 110 million ly
- Coordinates
- 12h 30m 47.8s +12° 23′ 06.7″ · NAME Virgo Cluster via Sc
- RA (deg)
- 187.6991
- Dec (deg)
- 12.3852
- Within
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Recognised
- 1953
- Population
- ~100 galaxy groups
- Size (ly)
- 110000000
- Kind
- Supercluster
Notes
The flattened concentration of groups centred on the Virgo Cluster, mapped by Gérard de Vaucouleurs when the idea that clusters themselves cluster was still controversial. We are on its outskirts.
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