Vela supercluster (VSC) and the Shapely supercluster (SC)
The Australian National University (ANU) is part of an international team of astronomers that found one of the Universe’s biggest superclusters of galaxies near the Milky Way. Professor Matthew Colless from ANU said the Vela supercluster, which had previously gone undetected as it was hidden by stars and dust in the Milky Way, was a huge mass that influenced the motion of our Galaxy.
“This is one of the biggest concentrations of galaxies in the Universe – possibly the biggest in the neighbourhood of our Galaxy, but that will need to be confirmed by further study,” said Professor Colless...
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