Team of Astronomers Discovers Universe’s Biggest Galaxy Supercluster Vela near the Milky Way A research team of astronomers from Australia, South Africa, and Europe has discovered one of the universe’s biggest super clusters of galaxies, Vela super cluster, near the Milky Way. It was undetected for long as it was hidden by stars and dust in the Milky Way. The study was published in
the journal Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society. The Vela is massive and is at a distance of 840 million light-years from Earth. It is estimated to carry 100,000 galaxies with trillions of stars. The researchers stated that the Milky Way which is a part of the Laniakea supercluster appeared very small and weak when compared to the massive Vela. They used the Anglo-Australian Telescope to measure distances for many galaxies to confirm earlier predictions that Vela was a supercluster.
Two new Australian surveys starting in 2017 will confirm the size of the Vela supercluster.
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