The Ladder of Scale · structure
Shapley Supercluster
Supercluster · 650 million ly
- Coordinates
- 13h 05m 60.0s −33° 04′ 00.0″ · NAME Shapley Supercluster via Sc
- RA (deg)
- 196.5
- Dec (deg)
- -33.06667
- Within
- —
- Distance (ly)
- 650000000
- Recognised
- 1930
- Population
- ~8,600 galaxies
- Size (ly)
- 650000000
- Kind
- Supercluster
- Redshift
- 0.048
Notes
The largest concentration of mass in the nearby universe, and the direction Laniakea itself appears to be heading. Harlow Shapley found the over-density in the 1930s; its full extent took until the 1980s.
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