Glossary |
Our Cosmic Location |
updated: 2022-07-19 |
This chapter shows Earth's location in our universe in a hierarchical format:
Our Universe (diameter an mass: unknown)
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+--> Observable Universe (diameter ~ 93 Gly)
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+--> Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex or Filament
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+--> Virgo Supercluster
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+--> Local Group
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+--> Milky Way (diameter of the stellar disk: ~185 +/-15 kly, 100 - 400 billion stars)
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+-- Orion Arm
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+--> Sun's neighborhood
Sun's distance to our galaxy's center: 27.14 ± 0.46 kly (8.32 ± 0.14 kpc)
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