The Ladder of Scale · structure
Local Void
Void · 150 million ly
- Within
- Local Supercluster (Virgo)
- Distance (ly)
- 23000000
- Recognised
- 1987
- Population
- almost nothing
- Size (ly)
- 150000000
- Kind
- Void
Notes
An enormous emptiness beginning right at our doorstep and stretching away behind Sagittarius. Its lack of matter pushes the Local Sheet away at about 260 km/s — we are being repelled as much as attracted.
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