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Laniakea. The orange dot just right of centre, near the edge, is us.
Laniakea was defined in 2014, not by drawing a line around galaxies but by watching which way they fall. Everything inside it drifts toward the same focus.
Around 80 galaxies. Two of them count; the rest are dwarfs. A gravitationally bound clump, which means it is not expanding with the rest of the universe. The Local Group will still be here when…
Hidden behind the plane of the Milky Way, which is why it took so long to find.