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Cosmography alert 🚨
Revisiting the Great Attractor: The Local Group's streamline trajectory, cosmic velocity and dynamical fate
by Richard Stiskalek and co-authors (incl. @AstroMikeHudson)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08524#Cosmography #GreatAttractor #Cosmology #galaxies #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #science #news #LocalGroup #Laniakea #supercluster #LaniakeaSupercluster
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Wow 98,000 peculiar velocities
The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: Fundamental Plane Catalogue
by C.E. Ross and co-authors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03226For comparison: the Great Attractor was discovered with 400 PVs, Laniakea with 8000 PVs, South Pole Wall with 18,000 PVs
#Cosmicflows #Cosmology #DESI #Laniakea #GreatAttractor #SouthPoleWall #science #news #astrodon #arXiv #galaxies #peculiarvelocities
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in the #arXiv
Revealing Hidden Cosmic Flows through the Zone of Avoidance with Deep Learning
by Alexandra Dupuy and co-authors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03919 -
A map of the structure surrounding the Local Void
In this map our Milky Way galaxy lies at the origin of the red-green-blue orientation arrows, each 200 million lightyears in length.
☑️ this is Fig.1 of https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...880...24T/abstract
☑️ more insights by APOD: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190806.html#Cosmology #Cosmography #LocalVoid #APOD #GreatAttractor #map #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #STEM #MilkyWay #galaxy #galaxies #CosmicWeb
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in the #arXiv
a study of the effects of local cosmic inhomogeneities (inferred from Cosmicflows-4) on the gravitational wave event rate
by Gonzalo Morras and Juan García-Bellido
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00691#GravitationalWaves #Cosmicflows #Cosmology #Laniakea #supercluster #galaxies #LaniakeaSupercluster #GreatAttractor #LocalVoid #SloanGreatWall #LIGO #Virgo #KAGRA #interferometers #CosmicExplorer #EinsteinTelescope #Universe #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #science #physics #blackholes
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in the #arXiv
The SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey
... with new insights on what's lurking in the Zone of Avoidance:
⭐️ The Vela Supercluster
⭐️ The Great Attractor
⭐️ The Local Voidby Sharmila Goedhart and co-authors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07275#sarao #meerkat #ska #ska_africa #survey #zoneofavoidance #galaxies #velasupercluster #greatattractor #localvoid #milkyway #galaxy #cosmography #map #maps #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #southafrica
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Great Attractor paper alert 🚨
SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey: Probing the richness of the Great Attractor Wall across the inner Zone of Avoidance
by Nadia Steyn and co-authors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03545
#greatattractor #zoa #zoneofavoidance #galaxies #milkyway #galaxy #ska #ska_africa #sarao #meerkat #survey #cosmography #map #maps #cosmology #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #arxiv
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The force is with us.
A great, unseen force is pushing our galaxy across the cosmos - a paper by Lauren Tousignant writing for the New York Post on the discovery of the Dipole Repeller: https://nypost.com/2017/02/01/a-great-unseen-force-is-pushing-our-galaxy-across-the-cosmos
The research paper published in Nature Astronomy: https://rdcu.be/wqbG
#dipolerepeller #universe #cosmology #cosmography #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #galaxies #cosmos #physics #scicom #cosmicweb #cosmicvoids #greatattractor #milkyway #galaxy #nature #research #astrodon
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Check out this infographic poster by Kurzgesagt
https://shop-eu.kurzgesagt.org/collections/posters/products/laniakea-supercluster-infographic-poster
#universe #laniakea #infographic #poster #cosmicweb #galaxies #supercluster #earth #solarsystem #stars #milkyway #galaxy #localgroup #hawaii #greatattractor #localvoid #youarehere #scicom #space #cosmology #cosmography #cartography #map #maps #mapping #data #visualization #datavisualization #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #astro #cosmos #space #science #sciencemastodon #sciencedon #research #info #graphics #infographics
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A stylized visualization of the Dipole Repeller makes it to the cover of Nature Astronomy
https://web.archive.org/web/20170614103445/http://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/1/issues/2#universe #cosmology #cosmography #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #galaxies #cosmos #physics #bigbangtheory #cosmicweb #cosmicvoids #dipolerepeller #greatattractor #milkyway #galaxy #nature #astrodon