article_snippet: The astonishing discovery has revealed that the Milky Way - home to Earth and our solar system - is on the fringes of the enormous cosmic web.
article_snippet: The astonishing discovery has revealed that the Milky Way - home to Earth and our solar system - is on the fringes of the enormous cosmic web the enormous cosmic web .
article_snippet: our supercluster is the first to be mapped and shows galaxies strung out along glowing pathways that are held together by gravity as the groups make the groups way through space.
article_snippet: Scientists have long-known that galaxies are not distributed randomly but congregate together in clusters. 
article_snippet: Other than being our home, our galaxy is nothing special and is one of around 100,000 within our supercluster.
article_snippet: And even though the collection of bright galaxies is incomprehensibly large, the collection of bright galaxies makes up just a corner of the observable Universe.
article_snippet: Within Laniakea, galaxies flow inwards towards a region called the Great Attractor, the equivalent of a large gravitational valley.
article_snippet: our supercluster is the first to be mapped and shows galaxies strung out along glowing pathways that are held together by gravity .
article_snippet: The astronomers compared the movement of the galaxies with that of water among hills and valleys to chart our supercluster .
article_snippet: Around Our are four others - known as Shapley, Hercules, Coma and Perseus-Pisces - however it is difficult to show exactly where our neighbourhood of galaxies ends and the others begin.
article_snippet: Dr Brent Tully, from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu compared the galactic movement with that of water in a landscape of hills and valleys, tracing the outer surface of a region where the net-motion of galaxies was inward.
highlights_snippet: Scientists reveal the Milky Way's position in an enormous supercluster of galaxies after 10-year quest into unknown .
  
highlights_snippet: Milky Way is on fringes of gigantic cosmic web, which has been named Laniakea - meaning 
highlights_snippet: 'immeasurable heaven'
  Astronomers compared movement of the galaxies with water among hills and valleys to chart Huge supercluster  .