Finding our Place in the Universe Courtois Helene Professor and Vice-President University of Lyon
Finding our Place in the Universe Courtois Helene Professor and Vice-President University of Lyon How a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the…
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Finding our Place in the Universe Courtois Helene Professor and Vice-President University of Lyon
How a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the universe.You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. For twenty years, astrophysicist H l ne Courtois surfed the cosmos with international teams of researchers, working to map our local universe. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely?
It contains about 100,000 large galaxies like our own, and a million smaller ones. In this book, Courtois describes this quest and the discovery of our home supercluster.Courtois explains that Laniakea (which means "immense heaven" in Hawaiian) is the largest galaxy structure known to which we belong; it is huge, almost too large to comprehend--about five hundred million light-years in diameter. Writing accessibly for