Universe

Our Place in The Universe

In a Froth of Galaxies
On the Outskirts of a Supercluster
In the Local Group
Embedded in the Milky Way's Disk
On the Inner Edge of the Local Arm
On the third Planet out from the Sun

Our galaxy is located on the outskirts of a massive cluster of several thousand galaxies called the Virgo Supercluster .


Distance across image: 1 billion light years

The illustration is from a sequence by Brad Greenwood on the poster: Galaxies, (no publisher or date).