So enormous, hiding in plain sight. 🤯

Vela Supercluster being the largest known structure in the observable universe within the region "Zone of Avoidance" which is 300 million light-years across - about 3,000 times wider than the Milky Way - and contains an enormous amount of matter equivalent to about 30 quadrillion suns according to this article

The Vela Supercluster now ranks as more massive than Laniākea, the supercluster that contains Earth and the rest of our galaxy, and is "a close second" to the Shapley Supercluster, which is widely considered the largest supercluster of galaxies, Kraan-Korteweg said. (Other structures, such as the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and the recently discovered "Quipu," are even larger, but they are considered a step above a supercluster - essentially, clusters of superclusters.)

We are truly grains of sand under a microscope in the Cosmos web.

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