Ethan Siegel,Forbes
If you went to give our cosmic address, you might recount someone that we lived on planet Earth, andbiting our Sun,on the outskirts of a spur of the Milky Way's spiral arms, in the second largest galaxy in our local group, and approximately 50 million light years from the Virgo Cluster,embedded within the Laniakea supercluster. Well, you might gain to add another line to that address, and as Laniakia,along with dozens of other nearby giant clusters, is all embedded within a great cosmic void stretching a billion light years from halt-to-halt. This below-average region of space is consistent with everything we...
Source: realclearscience.com