Laniakea Supercluster: how big is it?
Laniakea Supercluster is about 518 million light-years. In everyday terms, that is ≈ 5,180 Milky Ways.
- Size
- 518 million light-years
- In metres
- 4.90 × 10²⁴ m
- Everyday comparison
- ≈ 5,180 Milky Ways
- Chapter
- The Cosmic Web
Did you know?
Our home supercluster. Its name means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian, and it contains around 100,000 galaxies.
How it compares
- About 1.6× bigger than Boötes Void (328 million light-years).
- About 180× smaller than Observable universe (93 billion light-years).
Other things of a similar size
- Andromeda Galaxy 220,000 light-years
- Distance to Andromeda 2.54 million light-years
- Local Group 10 million light-years
- Virgo Cluster 14.8 million light-years
- Boötes Void 328 million light-years
- Observable universe 93 billion light-years
Sizes are rounded, typical values drawn from standard reference sources, including NIST/CODATA physical constants and NASA's planetary fact sheets. Real objects vary; see About for how sizes are chosen.