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Earth's new address: 'Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'

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Analysis of galaxies shows local supercluster to be 100 times larger than previously thought.

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Gibney, E. Earth's new address: 'Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.15819

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