Wrigleyvillain
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System Name | DarkStar |
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Processor | i5 3570K 4.4Ghz |
Motherboard | Asrock Z77 Extreme 3 |
Cooling | Apogee HD White/XSPC Razer blocks |
Memory | 8GB Samsung Green 1600 |
Video Card(s) | 2 x GTX 670 4GB |
Storage | 2 x 120GB Samsung 830 |
Display(s) | 27" QNIX |
Case | Enthoo Pro |
Power Supply | Seasonic Platinum 760 |
Mouse | Steelseries Sensei |
Keyboard | Ducky Pro MX Black |
Software | Windows 8.1 x64 |
In a fascinating new study for Nature, a team of scientists mapped thousands of galaxies in our immediate vicinity, and discovered that the Milky Way is part of a jaw-droppingly massive "supercluster" of galaxies that they named Laniakea.
This structure is much, much, much bigger than astronomers had previously realized. Laniakea contains more than 100,000 galaxies, stretches 500 million light years across, and looks something like this (the Milky Way is just a speck located on one of its fringes on the right):
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/4/6105631/map-galaxy-supercluster-laniakea-milky-way