Our super-continent of galaxies: the Laniakea
An international research team, including astrophysicist Hélène Courtois from the Lyon Institute of Nuclear Physics (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University / CNRS) and CEA-Irfu research engineer Daniel Pomarède, has just discovered the frontiers of the galaxy continent in which we live. They gave it the Hawaiian name of Laniakea: "immense celestial horizons". This discovery made the front page of the prestigious international journal Nature dated September 4, 2014.
Click here to read the press release in French on the CEA website
E. Lemaitre, 2014-09-03 00:00:00
