Bah, puny humans! Milky Way dwarfed by galaxy supercluster ‘Laniakea’

A new cosmic map shows how our Milky Way galaxy is just a tiny part of a massive galaxy supercluster that scientists have dubbed 'Laniakea'.

The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for “immeasurable heaven.” The discovery, reported in the journal Nature on Sept 3, stems from a new mapping technique that combines not only the distances between more than 8,000 nearby galaxies, but also their relative motions.