A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/the-milky-way-could-be-part-of-a-much-larger-cosmic-neighborhood-than-we-realized-challenging-our-understanding-of-the-universe

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Get ready to feel cosmically insignificant.
https://popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a62546378/shapley-basin-of-attraction/

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Milky Way galaxy is part of something huge

Check out the new video produced by Anton Petrov a.k.a #WhatDaMath on our recent #NatureAstronomy paper

https://youtu.be/knxQ4Akfxy4

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This is an animation of Fig. 3 of our paper on the identification of Basins of Attraction in the Local Universe

➡️ full video https://youtu.be/xleH4wCyQtQ
➡️ article https://rdcu.be/dVh3s #NatureAstronomy

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