I could really use some scale on this image. Are these the galactic filaments of the laniakea supercluster?
As it stands, Sol and the interstellar gas cloud it and a couple hundred other stars reside within are in the middle of a 100-parsec-wide void where stellar density drops to near zero which we have named “the local bubble” in the Orion Spur connecting two arms of the Milky Way right now.
It is far from the first time a structure we’re part of is in the middle of nothing.
I could really use some scale on this image. Are these the galactic filaments of the laniakea supercluster?
As it stands, Sol and the interstellar gas cloud it and a couple hundred other stars reside within are in the middle of a 100-parsec-wide void where stellar density drops to near zero which we have named “the local bubble” in the Orion Spur connecting two arms of the Milky Way right now.
It is far from the first time a structure we’re part of is in the middle of nothing.