article_snippet: The gigantic supercluster of stars, planets and asteroids, which stretches 500 million light years across and has the mass of a hundred quadrillion suns, has been named Laniakea - Hawaiian for 'immeasurable heaven'.
article_snippet: The gigantic super-cluster of stars, planets and asteroids, which stretches 500 million light years across and has the mass of a hundred quadrillion suns, has been named Laniakea .
article_snippet: When clusters meet in the cosmos, clusters create giant superclusters, like Laniakea.
article_snippet: To put the sheer size of Our supercluster into context, Earth is the third planet from our Sun, which is one of just billions of stars within the Milky Way.
article_snippet: Dr Brent Tully, from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu wrote in the journal Nature: 'Dr Brent Tully, from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu define a supercluster to be the volume within such a surface, and so Dr Brent Tully, from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu are defining the extent of Dr Brent Tully, from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu home supercluster, which Dr Brent Tully, from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu call Laniakea.'
highlights_snippet: Huge supercluster stretches 500 million light years across and has the mass of a hundred quadrillion suns .
  